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Review of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire translated into languages spoken by children and adolescents of refugee background
Abstract The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), routinely used to screen for children's and adolescents' emotional and behavioural problems, has been translated into at least 80 languages. As children of refugee background are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems resulting from their refugee experiences, this review examines whether SDQs translated into languages spoken by major refugee groups are validated and culturally equivalent to the original SDQ and sensitive to change following interventions. No reviewed studies of translated SDQs reported on challenges in achieving conceptual and linguist...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - March 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yvonne Stolk, Ida Kaplan, Josef Szwarc Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Psychometric properties of the apathy evaluation scale in patients with Parkinson's disease
Abstract Parkinson's disease (PD) frequently entails non‐motor symptoms, worsening the course of the disease. Apathy is one of the core neuropsychiatric symptoms that has been investigated in recent years; research is however hampered by the limited availability of well‐evaluated apathy scales for these patients. We evaluated the psychometric properties of the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) in a sample of PD patients. Psychometric properties, convergent and discriminant validity and sensitivity/specificity were evaluated in patients with (n = 582) or without dementia/depression (n = 339). Internal consistency was hi...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - March 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Ulrike Lueken, Ricarda Evens, Monika Balzer ‐Geldsetzer, Simon Baudrexel, Richard Dodel, Susanne Gräber‐Sultan, Rüdiger Hilker‐Roggendorf, Elke Kalbe, Oliver Kaut, Brit Mollenhauer, Kathrin Reetz, Eva Schäffer, Nele Schmidt, Jörg B. Schulz, Anni Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

The development and validation of static and adaptive screeners to measure the severity of panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder
Abstract A series of static and adaptive screeners for panic disorder, social anxiety disorder (SAD), and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) were developed and compared using data‐driven methods to facilitate the measurement of each disorder in community samples. Data comprised 3175 respondents for the development sample and 3755 respondents for the validation sample, recruited independently using Facebook advertising. Item Response Theory (IRT) was utilized to develop static continuous screeners and to simulate computerized adaptive algorithms. The screeners consisted of a small subset of items from each bank (79% redu...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - March 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Matthew Sunderland, Philip J. Batterham, Alison L. Calear, Natacha Carragher Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Applications for self ‐administered mobile cognitive assessments in clinical research: A systematic review
Abstract Frequent, brief and repeated self‐administered mobile assessments of cognitive function, conducted in everyday life settings, are a promising complementary tool to traditional assessment approaches. Mobile cognitive assessments promote patient‐centered care and might enhance capacity to inform individual‐level outcomes over time (i.e. detecting subtle declines in cognitive function), as well as in assessing cognition and its correlates in the naturalistic environment. The goal of this systematic review was to assess the feasibility and psychometric properties of mobile cognitive assessments. Through a compre...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - March 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Raeanne C. Moore, Joel Swendsen, Colin A. Depp Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Assessment of alcoholic standard drinks using the Munich composite international diagnostic interview (M ‐CIDI): An evaluation and subsequent revision
This study evaluates the relevance of drink categories and pouring sizes, and the factors used to convert actual drinks into standard drinks. We compare the M‐CIDI to alternative drink assessment instruments and empirically validate drink categories using a general population sample (n = 3165 from Germany), primary care samples (n = 322 from Italy, n = 1189 from Germany), and a non‐representative set of k = 22503 alcoholic beverages sold in Germany in 2010–2016. The M‐CIDI supplement sheet displays more categories than other instruments (AUDIT, TLFB, WHO‐CIDI). Beer, wine, and spirits represent the most prevalent...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - March 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: S ören Kuitunen‐Paul, Jürgen Rehm, Dirk W. Lachenmeier, Firdeus Kadrić, Paula T. Kuitunen, Hans‐Ulrich Wittchen, Jakob Manthey Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Substance dependence among those without symptoms of substance abuse in the World Mental Health Survey
Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative uses the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI). The first 13 surveys only assessed substance dependence among respondents with a history of substance abuse; later surveys also assessed substance dependence without symptoms of abuse. We compared results across the two sets of surveys to assess implications of the revised logic and develop an imputation model for missing values of lifetime dependence in the earlier surveys. Lifetime dependence without symptoms of abuse was low in the second set of surveys (0.3% alcohol, 0.2...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - February 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Luise Lago, Meyer D. Glantz, Ronald C. Kessler, Nancy A. Sampson, Ali Al ‐Hamzawi, Silvia Florescu, Jacek Moskalewicz, Sam Murphy, Fernando Navarro‐Mateu, Yolanda Torres de Galvis, Maria Carmen Viana, Miguel Xavier, Louisa Degenhardt Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Data quality assurance and control in cognitive research: Lessons learned from the PREDICT ‐HD study
We present five important lessons learned to help other researchers avoid certain assumptions that could potentially lead to inaccuracies in their cognitive data. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - February 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Holly James Westervelt, Rachel A. Bernier, Melanie Faust, Mary Gover, H. Jeremy Bockholt, Roland Zschiegner, Jeffrey D. Long, Jane S. Paulsen, , Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

The structure of adult ADHD
Abstract Although DSM‐5 stipulates that symptoms of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are the same for adults as children, clinical observations suggest that adults have more diverse deficits than children in higher‐level executive functioning and emotional control. Previous psychometric analyses to evaluate these observations have been limited in ways addressed in the current study, which analyzes the structure of an expanded set of adult ADHD symptoms in three pooled US samples: a national household sample, a sample of health plan members, and a sample of adults referred for evaluation at an adult ADH...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - February 16, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lenard A. Adler, Stephen V. Faraone, Thomas J. Spencer, Patricia Berglund, Samuel Alperin, Ronald C. Kessler Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research

Cross ‐cultural measurement invariance of the General Health Questionnaire‐12 in a German and a Colombian population sample
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - February 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Cross ‐cultural measurement invariance of the General Health Questionnaire‐12 in a German and a Colombian population sample
Abstract While the General Health Questionnaire, 12‐item version (GHQ‐12) has been widely used in cross‐cultural comparisons, rigorous tests of the measurement equivalence of different language versions are still lacking. Thus, our study aims at investigating configural, metric and scalar invariance across the German and the Spanish version of the GHQ‐12 in two population samples. The GHQ‐12 was applied in two large‐scale population‐based samples in Germany (N = 1,977) and Colombia (N = 1,500). To investigate measurement equivalence, confirmatory factor analyses were conducted in both samples. In the Germ...
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - January 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Matthias Romppel, Andreas Hinz, Carolyn Finck, Jeremy Young, Elmar Br ähler, Heide Glaesmer Tags: Original Article Source Type: research

Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well ‐being Study (MPEWS): Understanding maternal mental health, fetal programming and child development. Study design and cohort profile
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - January 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Evaluating psychological distress data
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - December 28, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

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Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - December 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research

Effects of sample size and distributional assumptions on competing models of the factor structure of the PANSS and BPRS
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - December 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

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International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research,Volume 26, Issue 4, December 2017. (Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research)
Source: International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research - December 2, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research