@article{ref1,
title="Improving the evaluation of adult mental disorders in the criminal justice system with computerized adaptive testing",
journal="Psychiatric services",
year="2019",
author="Gibbons, Robert D. and Smith, Justin D. and Brown, C. Hendricks and Sajdak, Mary and Tapia, Nneka Jones and Kulik, Andrew and Epperson, Matthew W. and Csernansky, John",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="appips201900038-appips201900038",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to develop and validate a suite of dimensional measures of psychiatric syndromes for use in a criminal justice population. <br><br>METHODS: The previously validated Computerized Adaptive Test-Mental Health (CAT-MH) was administered to a sample of 475 defendants in the Cook County Bond Court. Item-level data were used to determine which test items exhibited differential item functioning in this population compared with the population used for the original calibration. <br><br>RESULTS: After removal of nine items that exhibited differential item functioning from the CAT-MH, correlations between scores based on the original calibration from a nonjustice-involved population and the newly computed scores based on a sample of bond court defendants showed a correlation coefficient of r=0.96 to r=0.99. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: With a slight modification of the original CAT-MH, the tool was successfully used to measure severity of depression, anxiety, mania and/or hypomania, suicidality, and substance use disorder in an English- and Spanish-speaking criminal justice population.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1075-2730",
doi="10.1176/appi.ps.201900038",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900038"
}