Evaluating and Quantifying User and Carer Involvement in Mental Health Care Planning (EQUIP): Co-Development of a New Patient-Reported Outcome Measure
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Bee, P, Gibbons, C, Callaghan, P, Fraser, C and Lovell, K (2016). Evaluating and Quantifying User and Carer Involvement in Mental Health Care Planning (EQUIP): Co-Development of a New Patient-Reported Outcome Measure. PLoS ONE. 11 (3), pp. e0149973-e0149973. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149973
Authors | Bee, P, Gibbons, C, Callaghan, P, Fraser, C and Lovell, K |
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Abstract | International and national health policy seeks to increase service user and carer involvement in mental health care planning, but suitable user-centred tools to assess the success of these initiatives are not yet available. The current study describes the development of a new reliable and valid, interval-scaled service-user and carer reported outcome measure for quantifying user/carer involvement in mental health care planning. Psychometric development reduced a 70-item item bank to a short form questionnaire using a combination of Classical Test, Mokken and Rasch Analyses. Test-retest reliability was calculated using t-tests of interval level scores between baseline and 2–4 week follow-up. Items were worded to be relevant to both service users and carers. Nine items were removed following cognitive debriefing with a service user and carer advisory group. An iterative process of item removal reduced the remaining 61 items to a final 14-item scale. The final scale has acceptable scalability (Ho = .69), reliability (alpha = .92), fit to the Rasch model (χ2(70) = 97.25, p = .02), and no differential item functioning or locally dependent items. Scores remained stable over the 4 week follow-up period, indicating good test-retest reliability. The ‘Evaluating the Quality of User and Carer Involvement in Care Planning (EQUIP)’ scale displays excellent psychometric properties and is capable of unidimensional linear measurement. The scale is short, user and carer-centred and will be of direct benefit to clinicians, services, auditors and researchers wishing to quantify levels of user and carer involvement in care planning. |
Keywords | MD Multidisciplinary; General Science & Technology |
Year | 2016 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Journal citation | 11 (3), pp. e0149973-e0149973 |
Publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) |
ISSN | 1932-6203 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149973 |
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149973.s001 | |
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149973.s002 | |
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149973.s003 | |
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149973.s004 | |
Publication dates | |
10 Mar 2016 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 08 Dec 2017 |
Accepted | 10 Mar 2016 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Editors | Abe, T |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/874w1
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