Evaluating the Responsiveness to Therapeutic Change with Routine Outcome Monitoring: A Comparison of the Symptom Questionnaire-48 (SQ-48) with the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (OQ-45)
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- 作者：Ingrid V. E. Carlier ; Viktó ; ria Ková ; cs ; Martijn S. van Noorden ; Christina van der Feltz-Cornelis ; Nanda Mooij ; Yvonne W. M. Schulte-van Maaren ; Albert M. van Hemert ; Frans G. Zitman and Erik J. Giltay
- 刊名：Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January/February 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：24
- 期：1
- 页码：61-71
- 全文大小：204K
- ISSN：1099-0879
文摘
Assessment of psychological distress is important, because it may help to monitor treatment effects and predict treatment outcomes. We previously developed the 48-item Symptom Questionnaire (SQ-48) as a public domain self-report psychological distress instrument and showed good internal consistency as well as good convergent and divergent validity among clinical and non-clinical samples. The present study, conducted among psychiatric outpatients in a routine clinical setting, describes additional psychometric properties of the SQ-48. The primary focus is on responsiveness to therapeutic change, which to date has been rarely examined within psychiatry or clinical psychology. Since a questionnaire should also be stable when no clinically important change occurs, we also examined test–retest reliability within a test–retest design before treatment (n = 43). A pre-treatment/post-treatment design was used for responsiveness to therapeutic change, comparing the SQ-48 with two internationally widely used instruments: the Brief Symptom Inventory (n = 97) and the Outcome Questionnaire-45 (n = 109). The results showed that the SQ-48 has excellent test–retest reliability and good responsiveness to therapeutic change, without significant differences between the questionnaires in terms of responsiveness. In sum, the SQ-48 is a psychometrically sound public domain self-report instrument that can be used for routine outcome monitoring, as a benchmark tool or for research purposes. Copyright