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  • Title: Validity of a brief measure of post-hospital adjustment for psychiatric patients.
    Author: Dornelas EA, Botticello AL, Goethe JW, Fischer EH.
    Journal: Compr Psychiatry; 2001; 42(5):410-5. PubMed ID: 11559868.
    Abstract:
    This study examined the psychometric properties of a 14-item self-administered outcome measure of post-hospital adjustment for former psychiatric inpatients. Such scales are frequently used in follow-up assessment, often without knowledge of scale reliability or validity. Responses to the scale items were factor analyzed for two samples, former patients and their therapists, each group rating the patient's post-hospital adjustment. Two strong factors emerged and were consistent across both samples: an anxiety-depression (intrapsychic) dimension and a functioning/productivity (external adjustment) dimension. Both scales showed good convergent validity with longer, standardized measures. Agreement between patients and therapists was adequate for anxiety-depression, indicating good consensual validity, but poor for functional adjustment. For the expatients, discriminant validity was not evident.
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