@article{ref1,
title="Balancing cultural specificity and generalizability: brief qualitative methods for selecting, adapting, and developing measures for research with American Indian communities",
journal="Psychological assessment",
year="2021",
author="Haroz, Emily E. and Ivanich, Jerreed D. and Barlow, Allison and O'Keefe, Victoria M. and Walls, Melissa and Kaytoggy, Cindy and Suttle, Rose and Goklish, Novalene and Cwik, Mary",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Culturally appropriate, valid and reliable measures are critical to assessing how interventions impact health. There is a tension between measures for specific cultural settings versus more general measures that permit comparisons across samples. We illustrate a feasible approach to measurement selection, adaptation and testing for a study of brief interventions to prevent suicide among American Indian youth ages 10-24. We used a modified Nominal Group Technique (NGT) with N = 7 Apache Community Mental Health Specialists (CMHS') to elicit priority impacts of interventions under study. We then tested the reliability and validity in N = 93 youth at baseline. The NGT results included selection of alternative measures, item removal and addition, and creation of a local well-being index. Measurement testing indicated excellent to good internal consistency (α: 0.82-0.96) and strong construct validity. Study results demonstrate a feasible approach to balancing cultural specificity and generalizability while producing valid and reliable measures to use in an intervention trial. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1040-3590",
doi="10.1037/pas0001092",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pas0001092"
}