TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Improving the evaluation of adult mental disorders in the criminal justice system with computerized adaptive testing
JO  - Psychiatric services
A1  - Gibbons, Robert D.
A1  - Smith, Justin D.
A1  - Brown, C. Hendricks
A1  - Sajdak, Mary
A1  - Tapia, Nneka Jones
A1  - Kulik, Andrew
A1  - Epperson, Matthew W.
A1  - Csernansky, John
SP  - appips201900038
EP  - appips201900038
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 1075-2730
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201900038
ID  - ref1
ER  -