Factorial and Construct Validity of the Revised Short Form Integrative Psychotherapy Alliance Scales for Family, Couple, and Individual Therapy

This article reports on a further exploration into the reliability and validity of the shortened form of the Career Development Inventory—Australia (Creed & Patton, 2004), a career maturity measure being developed to meet the need for a shorter and more up-to-date measure to provide data on this career development construct. Data gathered from 170 final-year education students (34 males, 132 females) provided partial support for the measure's internal consistency, factor structure and construct validity.

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The Early Maladaptive Schema Questionnaire-Short Form: A Construct Validity Study

Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development ◽

10.1080/07481756.2002.12069043 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 2-13 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Brian A. Glaser ◽

Linda F. Campbell ◽

Georgia B. Calhoun ◽

Jeffrey M. Bates ◽

John V. Petrocelli

Keyword(s):

Construct Validity ◽

Short Form ◽

Validity Study ◽

Early Maladaptive Schema ◽

Schema Questionnaire ◽

Maladaptive Schema

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Integrative Psychotherapy Alliance in Family, Couple, and Individual Therapy

Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_1152 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1528-1536

Author(s):

William M. Pinsof ◽

Jacob Z. Goldsmith ◽

Kelley Quirk

Keyword(s):

Individual Therapy ◽

Integrative Psychotherapy

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Validating and Assessing the Sensitivity of the Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index-derived Short Form-6D in Patients with Early Aggressive Rheumatoid Arthritis

The Journal of Rheumatology ◽

10.3899/jrheum.080959 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 36 (6) ◽

pp. 1150-1157 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

SOGOL S. AMJADI ◽

PAUL M. MARANIAN ◽

HAROLD E. PAULUS ◽

ROBERT M. KAPLAN ◽

VEENA K. RANGANATH ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽

Construct Validity ◽

Health Assessment Questionnaire ◽

Short Form ◽

Health Assessment ◽

Correlation Coefficients ◽

Patient Reported ◽

Clinical Measures ◽

Assessment Questionnaire ◽

Questionnaire Disability

Objective.New methodologies allow the scores for the Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index (HAQ-DI) to be translated into preferences/utility scores. We evaluated the construct validity of the HAQ-DI-derived Short Form-6D (SF-6D) score and assessed its responsiveness to change over 6- and 12-month followup periods in patients with early aggressive rheumatoid arthritis (RA).Methods.Patients (n = 277) participating in an RA observational study completed self-reported measures of symptoms and the HAQ-DI at baseline and at 6 and 12 months. Total Sharp scores, C-reactive protein, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were assessed along with clinical data. Construct validity was assessed by examining the association between SF-6D score and patient-reported and clinical measures using Spearman correlation coefficients. The responsiveness of SF-6D to change was assessed using patient and physician assessments of the disease as clinical anchors. The magnitude of responsiveness was calculated using SF-6D effect size (ES).Result.Mean SF-6D scores were 0.690, 0.720, and 0.723 at baseline and 6 and 12-month followup, respectively. Baseline patient-reported measures had moderate to high correlations with baseline SF-6D (r = 0.43 to 0.52); whereas clinical measures had negligible to low correlations with SF-6D (r = 0.001 to 0.32). ES was moderate for the groups that were deemed to have improved (ES 0.63–0.75) but negligible to small for those that did not (ES 0.13–0.46).Conclusion.Our data support the validity and responsiveness of the HAQ-DI derived SF-6D score in an early RA cohort. These results support the use of the HAQ-DI derived SF-6D in RA cohorts and clinical trials lacking preference-based measures.

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Validity of the PROMIS-29 in a large Australian cohort of patients with systemic sclerosis

Journal of Scleroderma and Related Disorders ◽

10.5301/jsrd.5000243 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 188-195 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Kathleen Morrisroe ◽

Wendy Stevens ◽

Molla Huq ◽

Joanne Sahhar ◽

Gene-Siew Ngian ◽

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Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Systemic Sclerosis ◽

Construct Validity ◽

Short Form ◽

Good Alternative ◽

Measurement Information ◽

Internal Reliability ◽

Sf 36 ◽

Patient Reported

Background We aimed to evaluate the construct validity of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System 29 (PROMIS-29) in Australian systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Methods SSc patients, identified through the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study database, completed two quality-of-life instruments concurrently, the PROMIS-29 and the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36). The construct validity of the PROMIS-29 was assessed by the correlations between the PROMIS-29 and the SF-36 and Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI). Cronbach's alpha was used to test the internal reliability of all instruments in Australian SSc patients and non-parametric correlation, including Spearman's correlation, was used to test the construct validity of PROMIS-29 against the SF-36 and HAQ-DI. Results A total of 477 completed questionnaires were returned, equating to a response rate of 59.6%. The mean (±SD) age of respondents at the time of the survey was 64.1 (±11.1) years. They were predominantly female (87.4%), with limited disease subtype (lcSSc) (77.8%) and long disease duration from onset of first non-Raynaud's phenomenon symptom at the time of survey (10.9 ± 11.1 years). For the correlation analysis between the PROMIS-29 and the legacy instruments, all Spearman correlation coefficients were in the logical direction and highly significant suggesting that the PROMIS-29 is a good alternative to other validated measures of disease burden. Conclusions Our study indicates that the PROMIS-29 questionnaire is a valid instrument for measuring health-related quality of life in Australian females with lcSSc of long duration.

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