Draft
MACRA Palliative Care Quality Measure Development: Summary Report of Alpha Testing
Summarizes findings from a small pilot study which was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of data collection processes and refine the testing plan in advance of a larger national field test.
Jun 15, 2020
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 1: Executive Summary)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 3: Sample Description)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 8: Observational Assessments of Cognitive Function, Mental Status, and Pain)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 6: Impairments and Special Services, Treatments, and Interventions)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 7: Global Health, Care Preferences, and Medication Reconciliation)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 2: Background and Methods)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 4: Cognitive Function)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Report
Development and Evaluation of Candidate Standardized Patient Assessment Data Elements: Findings from the National Beta Test (Volume 5: Mental Status and Pain)
This report, part of a series, describes patient assessment data elements developed and tested by RAND on behalf of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid services to comply with the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014.
Nov 15, 2019
Journal Article
Feasibility of Distinguishing Performance Among Provider Groups Using Patient-reported Outcome Measures in Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
This study determined the minimum sample sizes needed for reliability with two key health-related quality-of-life outcome-based performance measures among older adults. These estimates can guide the design of future patient-reported outcome-based performance measures.
Mar 1, 2019
Journal Article
A Clinically Integrated Mhealth App and Practice Model for Collecting Patient-Reported Outcomes Between Visits for Asthma Patients: Implementation and Feasibility
Implementation of a clinically integrated mHealth app and practice model can achieve high patient retention and adherence to guideline-recommended asthma symptom monitoring, while minimally burdening clinicians.
2019
Report
Measuring Barriers to Mental Health Care in the Military: The RAND Barriers and Facilitators to Care Item Banks
This report summarizes the findings of a study to construct item banks of barriers and facilitators to mental health care for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Dec 11, 2018
Journal Article
Healthcare Provider Counseling to Quit Smoking and Patient Desire to Quit: The Role of Negative Smoking Outcome Expectancies
The time devoted to counseling patients about smoking should include assistance to quit, such as recommending a product, prescription or program, and incorporate techniques to elicit patients' expectations of smoking.
Jul 3, 2018
Journal Article
Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 2 Pilot Testing
Results of the Alpha 2 feasibility test, used to help develop standardized assessment-based data elements to meet the requirements of the Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation(IMPACT) Act of 2014.
Jun 7, 2018
Journal Article
Core Components for a Clinically Integrated mHealth App for Asthma Symptom Monitoring
Smartphone-based health apps - using patient reported outcomes - can help asthma patients monitor symptoms between doctor visits.
Dec 15, 2017
Report
Patient-Reported Outcome–Based Performance Measures for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
RAND analysts tested performance measures of health-related quality of life to better understand the practical use of patient-reported outcome-based performance measures among elderly primary care patients with multiple chronic conditions.
Dec 7, 2017
Report
Development and Maintenance of Standardized Cross Setting Patient Assessment Data for Post-Acute Care: Summary Report of Findings from Alpha 1 Pilot Testing
This report presents results of the first Alpha 1 feasibility test of proposed items to include in the post-acute care patient assessment instruments for measuring seven areas of health status for Medicare beneficiaries.
Apr 27, 2017
Report
Outcome Performance Measure Development for Persons with Multiple Chronic Conditions
This report summarizes analyses to assess the reliability and validity of the Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12) metrics and patient-reported outcome performance measures.
Apr 12, 2017
Journal Article
Feasibility and Pilot Efficacy of a Brief Smoking Cessation Intervention Delivered by Vascular Surgeons in the Vascular Physician Offer and Report (VAPOR) Trial
Surgeons successfully delivered a brief smoking cessation intervention to patients preparing for peripheral artery disease surgery; initial results suggest the pre-surgery period may be a “teachable moment” for encouraging patients to quit smoking.
Feb 9, 2017
Journal Article
Early Stages of Development of a Peer Specialist Fidelity Measure
This paper describes the initial development of a peer specialist fidelity measure for two content areas: services provided by peer specialists and factors that either support or hamper the performance of those services.
Oct 12, 2016
Journal Article
Family Functioning and Predictors of Runaway Behavior Among At-Risk Youth
Adolescent runaway behavior is associated with a range of negative consequences in young adulthood. Therefore, this study aimed to examine predictors of running away in at-risk youth.
Oct 12, 2016
Journal Article
Measuring Workplace Climate in Community Clinics and Health Centers
Combining items from existing survey sets would improve measurement of community clinic and health center workplace climates.
Jul 6, 2016
Journal Article
Additional Validity Evidence for the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit
Using data from a follow-up sample (N = 491) and a community sample (N = 369) of adult daily and nondaily smokers, we replicated the findings from Edelen et al. (2014a) and examined the correlations of legacy smoking measures with the new item bank scores.
Feb 29, 2016
Journal Article
Effectiveness of Parent–child Mediation in Improving Family Functioning and Reducing Adolescent Problem Behavior: Results from a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
This study examines the effectiveness of parent-child mediation in improving family functioning.
Jan 22, 2016
Report
Development of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Survey of Health Attitudes: Description and Top-Line Summary Data
This report describes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's National Survey of Health Attitudes, part of the foundation's Culture of Health strategy. It describes the survey development and provides the survey text and summary statistics of the data.
Jan 21, 2016
Journal Article
Use of and Reasons for Using Multiple Other Tobacco Products in Daily and Nondaily Smokers: Associations with Cigarette Consumption and Nicotine Dependence
This study examined associations between cigarette consumption, nicotine dependence, and other tobacco product use in daily and nondaily smokers.
2016
Journal Article
Possibilities for Shortening the CAHPS Clinician and Group Survey
Several domains in the CAHPS Clinician and Group Survey can be substantially reduced without sacrificing reliability or content; the shorter version could be useful in health care settings when the full-length survey is impractical.
Nov 18, 2015
Journal Article
Chronic Stroke Outcome Measures for Motor Function Intervention Trials: Expert Panel Recommendations
The purpose of this article is to review the state of the science and to make recommendations for measuring patient-centric outcomes in interventions for motor improvement in the chronic stroke phase.
Nov 18, 2015
Journal Article
Developing an Assessment of the Adolescent Therapeutic Community Treatment Process Via Client Report
We developed and evaluated an instrument (DCI-A) to measure the adolescent therapeutic community (TC) treatment process.
May 21, 2015
Journal Article
Understanding Asthma-Specific Quality of Life: Moving Beyond Asthma Symptoms and Severity
This study identifies the unique contributions of asthma severity, symptoms, control and generic measures of quality of life (QoL) to asthma-specific QoL, as measured by the 12-item RAND Negative Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life scale (RAND-IAQL-12).
Apr 28, 2015
Journal Article
Uncovering Multivariate Structure in Classroom Observations in the Presence of Rater Errors
We examine the factor structure of scores from the CLASS-S protocol obtained from observations of middle school classroom teaching.
Apr 24, 2015
Journal Article
Spreading the Word: A Process Evaluation of a Voluntary AOD Prevention Program
This paper summarizes efforts to evaluate process information for CHOICE, a voluntary after-school AOD prevention program for middle-school youth.
Apr 22, 2015
Journal Article
The Psychometric Performance of the PROMIS Smoking Assessment Toolkit: Comparisons of Real-Data CATs, Short Forms, and Mode of Administration
The PROMIS® Smoking Initiative has developed six items banks for assessment related to cigarette smoking among adult smokers.
Apr 22, 2015
Journal Article
Item Response Theory Analysis of the Autonomy Over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS)
The Autonomy over Tobacco Scale (AUTOS) is a versatile and psychometrically sound instrument for measuring the loss of autonomy over tobacco use.
Mar 10, 2015
Journal Article
Quantifying 'Problematic' DIF Within an IRT Framework: Application to a Cancer Stigma Index
This paper introduces two metrics for IRT DIF evaluation that can discern potentially problematic DIF among items flagged with statistically significant DIF.
2015
Research Brief
Advancing Behavioral Health Measurement: The PROMIS® Smoking Assessment Toolkit
The PROMIS Smoking Initiative developed an assessment toolkit that enables the measurement of current adult smokers' standing in domains of importance to smoking research, including nicotine dependence and using smoking to cope with stress.
Sep 4, 2014
Journal Article
Development of the PROMIS® Negative Psychosocial Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks
This paper describes analyses conducted to develop and evaluate item banks for assessing psychosocial expectancies among daily and nondaily smokers.
Aug 22, 2014
Journal Article
Development of the PROMIS® Positive Emotional and Sensory Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks
This paper describes development of Positive Emotional and Sensory Expectancies of Smoking item banks that will serve to standardize the assessment of this construct among daily and nondaily cigarette smokers.
Aug 22, 2014
Journal Article
Development of the PROMIS® Nicotine Dependence Item Banks
This article describes analyses conducted to develop and evaluate item banks for assessing nicotine dependence among daily and nondaily smokers.
Aug 22, 2014
Journal Article
Development of the PROMIS® Social Motivations for Smoking Item Banks
This paper describes development of the PROMIS® Social Motivations for Smoking item banks, which will serve to standardize assessment of these social motivations among daily and nondaily smokers.
Aug 22, 2014
Journal Article
Development of the PROMIS® Coping Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks
Smoking is a coping strategy for many smokers who then have difficulty finding new ways to cope with negative affect when they quit. This paper describes analyses conducted to develop and evaluate item banks for assessing the coping expectancies of smoking for daily and nondaily smokers.
Aug 1, 2014
Journal Article
Development of the PROMIS® Health Expectancies of Smoking Item Banks
This paper describes the development and evaluation of item banks for assessing the health expectancies of smoking.
Aug 1, 2014
Journal Article
Methodology for Developing and Evaluating the PROMIS® Smoking Item Banks
The development of the PROMIS smoking item banks provides researchers with new tools for measuring smoking-related constructs.
Aug 1, 2014
Journal Article
The PROMIS® Smoking Assessment Toolkit—background and Introduction to Supplement
The new smoking assessment toolkit has attractive measurement features that are likely to benefit smoking research as researchers begin to utilize this resource.
Aug 1, 2014
Journal Article
The PROMIS® Smoking Initiative: Initial Validity Evidence for Six New Smoking Item Banks
The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) Smoking Initiative has developed 6 item banks for assessing smoking behaviors and biopsychosocial correlates of smoking among daily and nondaily adult cigarette smokers.
Aug 1, 2014
Journal Article
Developing a Global Cancer Stigma Index
The cancer stigma index can be used to inform initial cancer education efforts, identifying overall stigma levels in a country or community and particular issue areas requiring intervention.
Jul 1, 2014
Journal Article
The Psychometric Development and Initial Validation of the DCI-A Short Form for Adolescent Therapeutic Community Treatment Process
The goal of this study was to use bifactor modeling to derive a unidimensional DCI-A short-form (DCI-A-SF) that would represent content from the original DCI-A factors.
Mar 6, 2014
Journal Article
Assessing the Validity of the RAND Negative Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life Short Forms
In response to recommendations from the 2010 National Institutes of Health Asthma Outcomes Workshop, we developed a system for measuring the negative impact of asthma on quality of life (QoL), which was referred to as the RAND Negative Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life (RAND-IAQL) item bank.
2014
Journal Article
Correspondence Between the RAND-negative Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life Item Bank and the Marks Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire
The objective of this article was to provide an example of how to transform scores across disparate measures by using an item response theory (IRT)-based linking method.
2014
Journal Article
Development and Validation of the RAND Asthma Control Measure
The RAND-ACM, a five-item self-reported asthma control survey measure, performs well in a large ethnically-diverse sample of US adults with asthma and provides a cost-free alternative to other asthma control measures currently available.
2014
Journal Article
Developing an Item Bank and Short Forms That Assess the Impact of Asthma on Quality of Life
The present work describes the process of developing an item bank and short forms that measure the impact of asthma on quality of life (QoL) that avoids confounding QoL with asthma symptomatology and functional impairment.
2014
Journal Article
Development of a Measure of Asthma-Specific Quality of Life Among Adults
Items covering a broad range of content were developed that can serve as a valid gauge of individuals' perceptions of the effects of asthma and its treatment on their lives.
2014
Journal Article
A Psychometric Assessment of the GAIN Individual Severity Scale (GAIN-GISS) and Short Screeners (GAIN-SS) Among Adolescents in Outpatient Treatment Programs
The authors' investigation used intake data from 6,909 adolescents presenting to outpatient substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States.
2014
Journal Article
Implementation of Mindfulness Training for Adolescent Residential Clients
The purpose of this paper is to explore the degree to which mindfulness training can be implemented among adolescents undergoing residential substance abuse treatment.
2013
Journal Article
Using Logistic Approximations of Marginal Trace Lines to Develop Short Assessments
This article describes the computations needed to obtain logistic approximations of marginal trace lines for graded response items derived from multidimensional bifactor item response theory (IRT) models.
2013
Journal Article
Effective Communication of Molecular Genetic Test Results to Primary Care Providers
We evaluated a template for molecular genetic test reports that was developed as a strategy to reduce communication errors between the laboratory and ordering clinician.
2013
Journal Article
Toward a More Systematic Assessment of Smoking: Development of a Smoking Module for PROMIS®
The aim of the PROMIS® Smoking Initiative is to develop, evaluate, and standardize item banks to assess cigarette smoking behavior and biopsychosocial constructs associated with smoking for both daily and non-daily smokers.
Jul 31, 2012
Journal Article
Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter?
The strong link between having a best friend who smoked and increased adolescent smoking isn't affected by individual factors such as self-esteem, depressing and access to cigarettes.
Mar 1, 2012
Journal Article
The Positive Mental Health Instrument: Development and Validation of a Culturally Relevant Scale in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population
The objective of this study was to develop a self-administered measure that covers all key and culturally appropriate domains of mental health, which can be applied to compare levels of mental health across different age, gender and ethnic groups. We present the item reduction and validation of the Positive Mental Health (PMH) instrument in a community-based adult sample in Singapore.
Oct 1, 2011
Journal Article
A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative
The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.
Jan 17, 2011
Journal Article
Associations Between Abstinence in Adolescence and Economic and Educational Outcomes Seven Years Later Among High-Risk Youth
This study found that abstinence from all substance use for 12 months among a sample of 13-17 year olds was associated with positive long-term educational and economic outcomes relative to use of any substance.
2011
Journal Article
Running Away from Home: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Risk Factors and Young Adult Outcomes
Risk factors for adolescent running away from home include lack of parental support, school disengagement, depression, and heavier substance use at Grade 9; runaways had higher drug dependence and more depressive symptoms at age 21 than non-runaways.
2011
Journal Article
Long-term Effect of Community-Based Treatment: Evidence from the Adolescent Outcomes Project
A growing literature on adolescent drug treatment interventions demonstrates the efficacy of research therapies, but few rigorous studies examine the effectiveness of community-based treatments that are more commonly available to and utilized by youths and their families, the criminal justice system and other referring agencies. This study evaluates the effects 72-102 months after intake to a widely disseminated community-based treatment model, residential therapeutic community treatment, using data from RAND's Adolescent Outcomes Project.
Feb 1, 2010
Journal Article
Correspondence of Verbal Descriptor and Numeric Rating Scales for Pain Intensity: An Item Response Theory Calibration
This study provides a methodological crosswalk between two response scales for measuring pain in older adults so that either can be used in practice, depending on the preference of the clinician and respondent.
2010
Journal Article
A Comparison of Two Depressive Symptomatology Measures in Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Clients
Comorbid depression is common among substance abusers, making routine assessment of depression critical for high-quality care. The authors evaluated two of the most commonly used depressive symptomatology measures in a sample of clients in residential substance abuse treatment settings.
2009
Journal Article
Creating a Developmentally Sensitive Measure of Adolescent Alcohol Misuse: An Application of Item Response Theory
This study, funded by the US National Institute of Drug Abuse, evaluates the usefulness of item response theory to create a developmental alcohol misuse scale.
2009
Journal Article
The Health Value and Cost of Care for Major Depression
Describes a new approach to estimating the health value of alternative treatment patterns and applies the approach to common treatment patterns for major depression.
2009
Journal Article
Measurement of Teen Dating Violence Attitudes: An Item Response Theory Evaluation of Differential Item Functioning According to Gender
This article examines data from 2,575 high school students who participated in a teen-dating violence intervention study. The majority of participants were Latino (91%), and the sample was nearly evenly split with respect to gender (51% female). Items from two scales (boy-on-girl violence; girl-on-boy violence) reflecting teens' attitudes about dating violence were calibrated with the graded item response theory (IRT) model and evaluated for differential item functioning (DIF) by gender. Results support the use of IRT scores that account for DIF to minimize measurement error and improve inferences about gender differences in attitudes about dating violence
2009
Journal Article
Why Not Just Ask the Resident? Refinement of a Preference Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes
Evaluates a draft preference assessment tool designed to replace the current Customary Routine section of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) for nursing homes.
2009
Research Brief
The Societal Promise of Improving Care for Depression: Nine Years Out
This research highlight updates the cumulative effects of a study of a collaborative care-based quality-improvement treatment program for depression after nine years.
Nov 19, 2008
Journal Article
Do Dimensions of Therapeutic Community Treatment Predict Retention and Outcomes?
Higher first-week scores on Dimensions of Change Instrument assessments from adults in therapeutic communities predicted first-month retention. First-week scores also predicted posttreatment alcohol-and-other-drug abstinence and functioning.
Oct 1, 2008
Journal Article
Evaluating Differential Item Functioning of the PRIME-MD Mood Module Among Impoverished Black and White Women in Primary Care
The purpose of this study was to determine whether items in the mood module of the PRIME-MD perform similarly in 2 high-risk populations: impoverished black and white women. Results suggest that all items of the mood module of the PRIME-MD performed similarly for white and black women.
2008
Journal Article
Further Validity Evidence for the Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument
Examines the validity of the Dimensions of Change Instrument treatment process measure by confirming factor structure and examining each subscale's relationship with time in treatment, scales from another assessment, and mental and physical health.
2008
Journal Article
How a Therapy-Based Quality Improvement Intervention for Depression Affected Life Events and Psychological Well-Being Over Time: A 9-Year Longitudinal Analysis
Short-term quality improvement (QI) interventions for depression can improve long-term mental health but mechanisms are unknown.
2008
Journal Article
The Longitudinal Association Between Substance Use and Delinquency Among High-Risk Youth
Over the past two decades, studies have provided evidence for the strong link between substance use (SU) and delinquency among adolescents.
2008
Journal Article
Multiple Trajectories of Physical Aggression Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
Latent growth mixture modeling was used to identify discrete patterns of physical aggression from Grades 7 to 11 among a sample of 1,877 youth.
2008
Journal Article
Nursing Home Assessment of Cognitive Impairment: Development and Testing of a Brief Instrument of Mental Status
Tests the accuracy of a brief cognitive assessment of nursing home (NH) residents and to determine whether facility nurses can reliably perform this assessment.
2008
Journal Article
Obtaining Utility Estimates of the Health Value of Commonly Prescribed Treatments for Asthma and Depression
Comparing the costs and health value associated with alternative quality improvement efforts , this study employs expert panel methodology to elicit numerical estimates based on a 0 to 1 utility scale of the health benefit of usual treatment patterns for 2 medical conditions, depression and asthma.
2008
Journal Article
The Relationship of Reported Pain Severity to Perceived Effect on Function of Nursing Home Residents
Finds that questions addressing the effect of pain on day-to-day functions are an important addition to standardized pain assessments in nursing homes, particularly for persons who report intermediate levels of pain severity.
2008
Journal Article
Temporal Associations of Cigarette Smoking with Social Influences, Academic Performance, and Delinquency: A Four-Wave Longitudinal Study from Ages 13-23
Prosmoking peer and family influences were risk factors for future smoking throughout adolescence. Youth smoking was associated with peer smoking and poor grades, with youth smoking as a stronger antecedent than consequence for these factors.
2008
Journal Article
What the Resident Meant to Say: Use of Cognitive Interviewing Techniques to Develop Questionnaires for Nursing Home Residents
This study demonstrates how cognitive interviews can be used to improve questionnaires intended for nursing home residents.
2008
Research Brief
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS
This research brief describes findings from HIV Costs and Services Utilization Study surveys on the prevalence of mental health and substance abuse problems for persons with HIV, access to appropriate care, and ability to adhere to treatment.
Dec 8, 2007
Draft
Pattern-Mixture Models for Addressing Nonignorable Nonresponse in Longitudinal Substance Abuse Treatment Studies
Demonstrates the use of the pattern-mixture model as a way to understand andaccount for attrition when analyzing data and communicating results toresearch stakeholders.
Jan 25, 2007
Journal Article
Are Prisoner Characteristics Associated with Therapeutic Community Treatment Process?
Examines the relationship between prisoner client characteristics and Therapeutic Community treatment process in a male program and a female program
2007
Journal Article
A Discrete Time Hazards Model of Smoking Initiation Among West Coast Youth from Age 5 to 23
The impact of demographic and family influence factors on smoking initiation varies over time. However, the maximum risk for initiation is during the early teen years, and the range of considerable vulnerability is during middle school and high school.
2007
Journal Article
Measuring Changes in Client-Level Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community (TC) with the Dimensions of Change Instrument (DCI)
Findings show that clinicians can use the DCI to evaluate adult client progress and target areas for improving quality of care.
2007
Journal Article
Pilot Test of Project CHOICE: A Voluntary Afterschool Intervention for Middle School Youth
The current study reports findings from a pilot evaluation of a voluntary alcohol and marijuana intervention for young teens.
2007
Journal Article
Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community: Associations with Retention and Outcomes Among Adolescent Residential Clients
Study highlights components of the treatment process that may be particularly important for practitioners to consider and monitor in their clients
2007
Draft
A Discrete Time Hazards Model of Smoking Initiation Among West Coast Youth from Age 5 to 23
Models smoking initiation among youth by age, demographic/familial factors, and interactions with other youths: Demographic and family influences vary over time; children are most at risk in early teens; and are vulnerable in middle and high school.
Aug 3, 2006
Draft
Improving the Measurement of Socially Unacceptable Attitudes and Behaviors With Item Response Theory
Illustrates the application of item response theory to data from a teen dating violence intervention study, to identify factors reflecting teens' attitudes about dating violence.
May 3, 2006
Journal Article
Affective and Behavioral Responses to Health-Related Social Control
Social control has the potential to encourage engagement in a healthy lifestyle, its effectiveness may depend on the nature of the influence attempt.
2006
Journal Article
Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Women's Developmental Trajectories and Associates Outcomes
Women with certain patterns of smoking from age 13-23 are at heightened risk for early transitions to sexual activity and parenthood.
2006
Journal Article
The Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument
The results of the 2 studies are encouraging and support use of the 54-item DCI as a tool to measure treatment process.
2006
Journal Article
Identification of Differential Item Functioning Using Item Response Theory and the Likelihood-Based Model Comparison Approach: Application to the Mini-Mental State Examination
IRT and the likelihood-based model comparison approach comprise a powerful tool for DIF detection.
2006
Journal Article
Concurrent Use of Alcohol and Cigarettes from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: An Examination of Developmental Trajectories and Outcomes
Importance of curbing smoking behavior among adolescents before it becomes habitual.
2005
Journal Article
Dynamic Effects Among Patients' Treatment Needs, Beliefs, and Utilization: A Prospective Study of Adolescents in Drug Treatment
To document the relationships among substance use problems, utilization of drug treatment, and beliefs thought to increase treatment utilization.
2005
Journal Article
Isolating the Nexus of Substance Use, Violence and Sexual Risk for HIV Infection Among Young Adults in the United States
Adults aged 18 to 29 are at significant sexual risk for HIV infection.
2005
Journal Article
Mediation Analysis of a School-Based Drug Prevention Program: Effects of Project ALERT
Taken together, the findings highlight an avenue for program improvement through increased impact on peer influence to use alcohol and drugs.
2005
Journal Article
Mental Health Status and Use of General Medical Services for Persons with Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Serious medical illness often is accompanied by psychological distress.
2005
Journal Article
Predictors of Attempted Quitting and Cessation Among Young Adult Smokers
Different risk and protective factors are relevant to understanding why smokers attempt to quit vs. why they are able to quit for 6 months or longer.
2005
Journal Article
Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking, and Marijuana Use
Over the past several years, there has been growing interest in identifying distinct developmental trajectories of substance use.
2005
Report
A Cross-Lagged Model of Psychiatric Problems and Health-Related Quality of Life Among a National Sample of HIV-Positive Adults
Responses from a sample of HIV-positive adults at 2 time points approximately 8 months apart provide evidence for a reciprocal relationship between symptoms of psychiatric disorder and physical aspects of HRQOL.
2004
Journal Article
Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Their Correlates from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Smoking initiation typically occurs in adolescence and increases over time into emerging adulthood.
2004
Report
From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Smoking
The authors used data gathered from 6259 youths between the ages of 13 and 23 years to compare trends in smoking among 4 racial/ethnic groups.
2004
Journal Article
How Important Are Client Characteristics to Understanding Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community?
Examines the in-treatment experience for different clients by exploring the relationships between treatment process and client characteristics.
2004
Journal Article
The Interview Mode Effect on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale: An Item Response Theory Analysis
Cognitive factors appear more important to the mode effect in the CES-D.
2004
Journal Article
Psychosocial Mediators of Antiretroviral Nonadherence in HIV-positive Adults with Substance Use and Mental Health Problems
Investigates causes of nonadherence to ARV medications among patients with mental health and substance use problems.
2004
Report
Improving the Credibility of Information on Health Care Outcomes: the Cardiac Surgery Demonstration Project
2003
Journal Article
Combination Antiretroviral Therapy and Improvements in Mental Health: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Persons Undergoing Care for HIV in the United States
ART appears to be responsible for both a treatment-specific and global improvement in the mental health of HIV+ patients.
2003
Journal Article
Further Investigation of the Performance of S - X2: An Item Fit Index for Use with Dichotomous Item Response Theory Models
This study presents new findings on the utility of S - X2 as an item fit index for dichotomous item response theory models.
2003
Journal Article
How to Evaluate and Improve the Quality and Credibility of an Outcomes Database: Validation and Feedback Study on the UK Cardiac Surgery Experience
Wider application of this approach should increase the credibility of similar databases before their public release.
2003
Report
Patterns and Correlates of Binge Drinking Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Patterns and Correlates of Binge Drinking Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood
2003
Journal Article
Personal and Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Psychiatric Conditions Among Women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus
This study presents information on correlates of mental health and substance abuse problems among women with human immunodeficiency virus
2003
Journal Article
Predictors of Acute Distress Among Young Adults Injured by Community Violence
Acute reactions to trauma are examined in 267 individuals severely injured via community violence.
2003
Journal Article
Retention of Court-Referred Youth in Residential Treatment Programs: Client Characteristics and Treatment Process Effects
The juvenile justice system relies heavily on residential treatment services for adolescents.
2003
Journal Article
Social Context and Adolescent Health Behavior: Does School-Level Smoking Prevalence Affect Students' Subsequent Smoking Behavior?
Paper examines the links between individual adolescent smoking behavior and actual and perceived smoking behavior in the individual's school cohort.
2003
Journal Article
Acculturation and Peritraumatic Dissociation in Young Adult Latino Survivors of Community Violence
2002
Report
Acculturation and Peritraumatic Dissociation in Young Adult Latino Survivors of Community Violence
Examines the relationship between acculturation and peritraumatic dissociation in a sample of 304 physically injured Latino survivors of community violence and finds that retaining cultural traditions does not necessarily promote mental health.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
Development and Validation of a Modified Version of the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire
This article reports results from 3 studies conducted to develop and validate a modified version of the self-administered form of the PDEQ.
2002
Journal Article
Differential Item Functioning in a Spanish Translation of the PTSD Checklist: Detection and Evaluation of Impact
2002
Report
Differential Item Functioning in a Spanish Translation of the PTSD Checklist: Detection and Evaluation of Impact
Compares a newly developed Spanish version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) with the established English version, to be used to study the mental health consequences of community violence.
2002
Journal Article
Knowledge of Health Care Benefits Among Patients with Depression
Agreement between self-reports and actual benefits was stronger for general medical services than for mental health care.
2002