Abstract
Culturally appropriate, valid and reliable measures are critical to assessing how interventions impact health. There is a tension between measures for specific cultural settings versus more general measures that permit comparisons across samples. We illustrate a feasible approach to measurement selection, adaptation and testing for a study of brief interventions to prevent suicide among American Indian youth ages 10–24. We used a modified Nominal Group Technique (NGT) with N = 7 Apache Community Mental Health Specialists (CMHS’) to elicit priority impacts of interventions under study. We then tested the reliability and validity in N = 93 youth at baseline. The NGT results included selection of alternative measures, item removal and addition, and creation of a local well-being index. Measurement testing indicated excellent to good internal consistency (α: 0.82-0.96) and strong construct validity.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 311-319 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Psychological Assessment |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 23 2021 |
Keywords
- Measures
- Mixed methods
- Native american
- Reliability
- Validity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health