Measurement properties of the Adolescent Quality of Life Mental Health Scale (AQOL-MHS).
Measurement properties of the Adolescent Quality of Life Mental Health Scale (AQOL-MHS).
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DOI：
10.1007/s11136-013-0579-2
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发表时间：
2014-05
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Morales, Leo S.
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作者：
Chavez, Ligia M.;Ramirez, Rafael;Garcia, Pedro;Canino, Glorisa;Mir, Karen;Ortiz, Nyrma;Morales, Leo S.
本文介绍了一种新的措施，青少年生活质量心理健康量表（AQOL-MHS），旨在衡量生活质量的拉丁美洲青少年12-18岁的临床样本的心理测量特性的数据。参与者是在波多黎各招募的，患有五种常见心理健康疾病之一。最初的工具开发是通过使用焦点小组和深入访谈的扎根理论方法实现的。我们对60个候选项目进行了两个阶段的探索性因素分析（EFA）。第一阶段是确定要提取的因素数量，第二阶段是通过选择最佳项目来改进模型。最终的EFA模型保留了31个项目和3个因素，分别为情绪调节（11项），自我概念（10项）和社会背景（10项）。该工具表现出良好的内部一致性，重测信度和结构效度。假设驱动的效度检验均支持AQOL-MHS。有证据表明收敛有效性和区分有效性，已知群体有效性的结果压倒性地支持该工具识别群体之间差异的能力。这些初步研究结果支持我们的概念模型和使用AQOL-MHS域和整体评分。我们相信，该工具将为临床医生提供更多的洞察生活质量的不同方面，这是重要的青少年心理健康问题。因此，我们认为AQOL-MHS是一个重要的以患者为中心的结局指标，用于评估该人群预防和治疗策略。
This article presents data on the psycho-metric properties of a new measure, the Adolescent Quality of Life Mental Health Scale (AQOL-MHS), designed to measure quality of life in clinical samples of Latino adolescents aged 12–18 years. Participants were recruited in Puerto Rico to have one of five prevalent mental health disorders. The initial instrument development was achieved through a grounded theory approach with the use of focus groups and in-depth interviews. We conducted two stages of exploratory factor analyses (EFA) on 60 candidate items. The first stage was to establish the number of factors to extract, and the second was to improve the model by selecting the best items. A final EFA model retained 31 items and 3 factors labeled Emotional Regulation (11 items), Self-Concept (10 items) and Social Context (10 items). The instrument showed good internal consistency, test–retest reliability, and construct validity. The hypotheses-driven validity tests were all supportive of the AQOL-MHS. There was evidence for convergent validity and discriminant validity, and results for known-groups’ validity were overwhelmingly supportive of the ability of the instrument to identify differences between groups. These preliminary findings support our conceptual model and the use of the AQOL-MHS domain and overall scores. We believe that this instrument will provide clinicians additional insight into the different aspects of quality of life that are important to adolescents with mental health problems. Therefore, we consider the AQOL-MHS a vital patient-centered outcome measure for assessment strategies in the prevention and treatment of this population.
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