Psychometrics of the Personal Questionnaire: A client-generated outcome measure.

Elliott, Robert; Wagner, John A.; Sales, Célia; Rodgers, Brian; Alves, Paula; Cafe, Maria J.

doi:10.1037/pas0000174

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“…PQ and PSYCHLOPS were chosen because they are the most frequently used individualised outcome measures in the mental health field (Sales and Alves 2016); CORE-OM and PHQ-9 are gold standard outcome measures that have already been administered in combination with PQ and PSYCHLOPS with satisfactory/good convergent validity scores (PQ vs. CORE-OM r = 0.80 and PQ vs. PHQ-9 r = 0.44; Elliott et al 2016; PSYCHLOPS vs. CORE-OM r = 0.6; Ashworth et al 2007); and TOP is one of the most frequently used measures for outcome evaluation in substance use treatment (see http://www.nta.nhs.uk/top-world-map.aspx).…”

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“…PSYCHLOPS includes a fourth standardised six-point scale question about overall well-being; and the Personal Questionnaire (PQ; Elliott et al 2016), an interview-based individualised outcome measure whose items are elicited in a semi-structured format. In the interview, the patient is asked to brainstorm his/her current problems, prompted by the question "Describe the main problems that you are having right now that led you to seek treatment".…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ashworth et al 2007), counselling and psychotherapy services (e.g. Elliott et al 2016). However, the use of individualised outcome measures has only recently been applied to substance use treatment, and little is known about their potential in this field.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…If used as part of the outcome evaluation process, individualised measures can generate patient-specific information that can be combined with standardised data for a better understanding of the patient's clinical situation (Alves et al 2015;Sales and Alves 2012). Also, individualised measures provide an evidenced-based structured strategy to collect qualitative and personalised information about patients, enabling use for evaluation purposes, unlike other clinically relevant information such as clinical notes (Elliott et al 2016).…”

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“…Psychological Outcome Profiles, PSYCHLOPS; Ashworth et al 2004); and open-ended interviews, where patients are asked, in a dialogue, to talk about their problems (e.g. Simplified Personal Questionnaire, PQ; Elliott et al 2016). Researchers believe that both formats have their own advantages and disadvantages.…”

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“There Are Things I Want to Say But You Do Not Ask”: a Comparison Between Standardised and Individualised Evaluations in Substance Use Treatment

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There has been an increasing call for service users to be more actively involved with the evaluation of treatment outcomes. One strategy to impove such involvement is to ask service users to contribute with their own criteria for evaluation by sharing their personal story and perspective about their clinical situation. In this cross-sectional study, we contrasted the contents elicited by service users completing two individualised measures against the contents of three widely used standardised measures. We also compared two methods to generate individualised data using self-report and interview-based instruments (PSYCHLOPS and PQ). Following a thematic comparison approach, we found that one quarter of the problems reported by patients in individualised measures were not covered by any of our standardised comparators. Also, half of our sample generated at least one problem whose theme was not covered by any of the three standardised measures. We also found that patients in this population have many other concerns beyond drug use. These included psychological (e.g. interpersonal relationships) and socio-economic (e.g. money) problems, which were frequently reported. Our study suggests that listening to service users' stories allows us to capture issues of importance to service users in substance use treatment, which may be underestimated by standardised measures.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%