Reference values for mental health assessment instruments: objectives and methods of the Leiden Routine Outcome Monitoring Study

AbstractThis article focuses on mental health assessment of refugees in clinical, educational and administrative-legal settings in order to synthesise research and practice designed to enhance and promote further development of culturally appropriate clinical assessment services during the refugee resettlement process. It specifically surveys research published over the last 25 years into the development, reliability measurement and validity testing of assessment instruments, which have been used with children, adolescents and adults from refugee backgrounds, prior to or following their arrival in a resettlement country, to determine whether the instruments meet established crosscultural standards of conceptual, functional, linguistic, technical and normative equivalence. The findings suggest that, although attempts have been made to develop internally reliable, appropriately normed tests for use with refugees from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, matters of conceptual and linguistic equivalence and test–retest reliability are often overlooked. Implications of these oversights for underreporting refugees' mental health needs are considered. Efforts should also be directed towards development of culturally comparable, valid and reliable measures of refugee children's mental health and of refugee children's and adults' psychoeducational, neuropsychological and applied memory capabilities.

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Mobile technology for mental health assessment

Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience ◽

10.31887/dcns.2016.18.2/parean ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 163-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mobile Technology ◽

Mobile Applications ◽

Clinical Decision Making ◽

Health Assessment ◽

Clinical Decision ◽

Self Report ◽

Traditional Assessment ◽

Mental Health Assessment ◽

Outcome Monitoring

Assessment and outcome monitoring are critical for the effective detection and treatment of mental illness. Traditional methods of capturing social, functional, and behavioral data are limited to the information that patients report back to their health care provider at selected points in time. As a result, these data are not accurate accounts of day-to-day functioning, as they are often influenced by biases in self-report. Mobile technology (mobile applications on smartphones, activity bracelets) has the potential to overcome such problems with traditional assessment and provide information about patient symptoms, behavior, and functioning in real time. Although the use of sensors and apps are widespread, several questions remain in the field regarding the reliability of off-the-shelf apps and sensors, use of these tools by consumers, and provider use of these data in clinical decision-making.

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Reference values for generic instruments used in routine outcome monitoring: the leiden routine outcome monitoring study

BMC Psychiatry ◽

10.1186/1471-244x-12-203 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Yvonne WM Schulte-van Maaren ◽

Ingrid VE Carlier ◽

Frans G Zitman ◽

Albert M van Hemert ◽

Margot WM de Waal ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Reference Values ◽

Routine Outcome Monitoring ◽

Outcome Monitoring ◽

Monitoring Study

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The interRAI Suite of Mental Health Assessment Instruments: An Integrated System for the Continuum of Care

Frontiers in Psychiatry ◽

10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00926 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

John P. Hirdes ◽

Coline van Everdingen ◽

Jason Ferris ◽

Manuel Franco-Martin ◽

Brant E. Fries ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Assessment ◽

Continuum Of Care ◽

Integrated System ◽

Assessment Instruments ◽

Mental Health Assessment ◽

The Continuum

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Reference values for the Body Image Concern Inventory (BICI), the Whitely Index (WI), and the Checklist Individual Strength (CIS-20R): The Leiden Routine Outcome Monitoring Study

Journal of Affective Disorders ◽

10.1016/j.jad.2014.03.013 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 164 ◽

pp. 82-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Yvonne W.M. Schulte-van Maaren ◽

Erik J. Giltay ◽

Albert M. van Hemert ◽

Frans G. Zitman ◽

Margot W.M. de Waal ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Reference Values ◽

The Body ◽

Routine Outcome Monitoring ◽

Body Image Concern ◽

Outcome Monitoring ◽

Checklist Individual Strength ◽

Monitoring Study

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Expert Consensus to Examine the Cross-Cultural Utility of Substance Use and Mental Health Assessment Instruments for Use with Indigenous Clients

Evaluation Journal of Australasia ◽

10.1177/1035719x1701700303 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 17 (3) ◽

pp. 14-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anne Stephens ◽

India Bohanna ◽

Deborah Graham

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Substance Use ◽

Service Providers ◽

Health Assessment ◽

Specific Treatment ◽

Expert Consensus ◽

Face Validity ◽

Assessment Instruments ◽

Mental Health Assessment ◽

Novel Approach

Evaluation of minority-culture specific treatment centres for substance use and mental health is challenging. The challenge is compounded by a paucity of validated instruments for assessing substance use and mental ill health. In the field of Australian Indigenous alcohol and other drug service provision there are few guidelines to determine which instruments should be targets for validation for use with Indigenous clients. As such, reliable, validated, evaluable data on the client population is limited, posing multifaceted concerns for clinicians and service providers as well as evaluators. The aim of this study was to pilot the use of a participatory expert consensus approach to evaluate, rate and select suitable majority-culture substance use and mental health assessment instruments for use with their clients. Eight practitioners of an Indigenous-specific substance misuse residential treatment centre participated. The findings reinforce the value of consensus approaches for stakeholder engagement and to provide a sense of ownership of the results. In this setting, consensus on the implementation of an agreed set of Indigenous-specific and non-Indigenous specific instruments improved the ownership of the instruments by clinicians allowing for the use of valid and/or reliable instruments that also had good face validity. This makes it more probable that reliable client wellbeing data will be collected. This is crucial to program evaluation at a later point in time. This study was a novel approach to generating evidence to inform practice in the absence of normative practice guidelines.

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