Reliability and validity of five mental health scales in older persons.
Reliability and validity of five mental health scales in older persons.
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老年人五种心理健康量表的信度和效度。
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1983
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S. Murrell
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作者：
S. Himmelfarb;S. Murrell
评估了五个量表作为老年人的心理健康衡量标准：情感平衡、流行病学研究中心抑郁量表、总体幸福感、LSI-Z生活满意度和特质焦虑问卷。这些量表被用于279名老年人的社区样本和109名住在精神病院的老年人的临床样本。在两个样本中，焦虑、抑郁和幸福感量表的内部一致性信度都是中等到高的，生活满意度量表的内部一致性信度是可以接受的，但情感平衡量表的可靠性表明它的使用需要谨慎。对于有效性，多变量的方差分析发现，所有的量表在两个样本之间有显著的区别。幸福感和抑郁量表的区分能力最强，而生活满意度的效度最弱。建议使用幸福感和抑郁量表的分界点来估计老年人中可能存在需要干预的障碍风险的比例。
Five scales were assessed as mental health measures for older persons: Affect Balance, The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale, General Well-Being, LSI-Z Life Satisfaction, and Trait-Anxiety Inventory. These scales were administered to a community sample of 279 older persons and a clinical sample of 109 older persons who were in psychiatric inpatient units. In both samples, the internal consistency reliabilities for the anxiety, depression, and well-being scales were moderately high to high, for the life satisfaction scale they were acceptable, but the reliabilities for the affect balance scale suggest some caution in its use. For validity, multivariate analyses of variance found that all scales significantly discriminated between the two samples. The well-being and then depression scales were the strongest discriminators while the life satisfaction scale had the weakest validity. Cutting points for the well-being and depression scales are suggested for estimating the proportions of older persons who would be probable at-risk for disorder that requires intervention.