Standardized outcome measures of mental health in research with older adults who are incarcerated.
Standardized outcome measures of mental health in research with older adults who are incarcerated.
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DOI：
10.1108/ijph-08-2021-0085
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发表时间：
2022-04-05
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1.4
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在对被监禁的老年人进行的研究中，有针对性地使用心理健康的标准化结果衡量标准（SOMs），促进了一种共同语言，使跨学科对话成为可能，有助于确定差异，并支持数据协调和随后的综合。我们鼓励研究人员使用社区居住老年人研究中使用的“金标准”测量方法，报告相关研究样本心理测量指标，并详细说明方法或测量方法的任何变化。我们强调被监禁的老年人的心理健康。我们还讨论了SOMs在实践和研究中的好处，然后确定了社区居住老年人和监禁老年人研究中使用的心理健康金标准测量方法。最后，我们提供了一些关于在这一人群的研究中使用SOMs心理健康的建议。抑郁、焦虑和创伤后应激障碍在被监禁的老年人中很常见。研究人员使用了各种方法来捕捉这些心理健康问题，其中一些方法与社区居住样本相似。然而，在这一人群的心理健康研究中更有针对性地使用SOMs将有助于在这一新兴领域取得重要进展。本综述提供了一些与监禁老年人心理健康研究中SOMs相关的实用建议，以提供严格的证据基础，从而为实践提供信息，并有可能改善这一人群的健康和福祉。
The targeted use of standardized outcome measures (SOMs) of mental health in research with older adults who are incarcerated promotes a common language that enables interdisciplinary dialogue, contributes to the identification of disparities, and supports data harmonization and subsequent synthesis. We encourage researchers to use ‘gold-standard’ measures used in research with community-dwelling older adults, report associated study sample psychometric indexes, and detail any alterations in the approach or measure. We highlight the mental health of older adults who are incarcerated. We also discuss the benefits of SOMs in practice and research, and then identify gold-standard measures of mental health used in research with community-dwelling older adults and measures used in research with older adults who are incarcerated. Finally, we provide several recommendations related to the use of SOMs of mental health in research with this population. Depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder are common among older adults who are incarcerated. Researchers have used a variety of measures to capture these mental health problems, some parallel to those used with community-dwelling samples. However, a more targeted use of SOMs of mental health in research with this population will contribute to important strides in this burgeoning field. This review offers several practical recommendations related to SOMs of mental health in research with older adults who are incarcerated to contribute to a rigorous evidence base and thus inform practice, and potentially improve the health and well-being of this population.