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Introduction:
Given the increasing prevalence of mental health problems in the general population, it is indispensable to use assessment tools aimed to assess the outcome of therapeutic interventions in order to refine the process of psychological rehabilitation.
Method:
We describe the process of adaptation into Spanish and a first psychometric...
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Context 1
... results of the Mann-Whitney U test showed statis- tically significant differences between the two samples in both Total and Total except Risk scales, with higher scores in the clinical sample. Nevertheless, there are discrepancies be- tween the effect sizes (see Table 2). The Student's t corroborated those differences. ...
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... 95% CI from -8.26 to -3.55, p<0.05, for the Total score; t (139) =-5.46, 95% CI from -7.82 to -3.10, p<0.05, for the Total except Risk score) within the girls. Like in the comparison of the whole samples, and as can be seen in Table 2, discrepancies between the effect sizes appeared, but were even higher for the female sample. ...
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Citations
... The students rated how often over the last week they had felt in the way described by each item, by using a 5-point scale that ranges from 1 ("not at all") to 5 ("most or all of the time"). The psychometric properties of the YP-CORE have been investigated in clinical as well as in nonclinical samples [e.g., (67,68)] and there is evidence of its good psychometric properties in different countries [e.g., (69,70)], as well as in the Italian context (71). The alpha coefficient for the current study was 0.74 at T1 and 0.84 at T2. ...
Background
The mental health of university students is significantly affected when faced with public health emergencies and requires specific interventions to help support and prevent any long-lasting effects that the pandemic may have on their mental health status. This study aims to evaluate the impact of an online individual counseling intervention provided by the University of Foggia and carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health status of a sample of university students.
Methods
32 Italian undergraduate students took part in a one-group pretest-posttest research design. The data was gathered in two times: before the start of the counseling intervention (T1), positive and negative affect, satisfaction with life, global mental distress, anxiety, stress, and future time perspective were collected, at the end of the counseling intervention (T2), the same dimensions were measured. A one-way repeated measures multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was performed, and single Bonferroni-corrected dependent t -tests were conducted on variables showing a significant change over time.
Results
The results showed that positive affect, subjective well-being, and future time perspective increased significantly after the intervention. In contrast, the participants reported significantly lower levels of negative affect, global mental distress, state and trait anxiety, as well as perceived stress over time.
Conclusions
The study demonstrates the promising impact of online counseling intervention and its efficient contribution in promoting the well-being of university students. The results contribute to the ongoing debate concerning the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young adults, helping professionals develop more efficient clinical and psychological interventions.
... The questionnaire provides a global mental distress index and is therefore suitable for use as an initial assessment tool and as a measure of outcomes; it cannot be used to obtain a specific disorder diagnosis. (Evans et al., 2002;Twigg et al., 2016;O'Reilly, Peiper, Keeffe, Illback, Clayton, 2016;Gergov et al., 2017;Feixas et al., 2018). ...
... This study reports the first evaluation of psychometric properties of the Italian version of YP-CORE. The measure showed excellent acceptability with no missed items in the clinical sample and very few in the non-clinical sample with only two of the 376 responses (0.5%) not proratable, consistent with findings in the UK, Finland and Spain (Twigg et al., 2016;Gergov et al., 2017;Feixas et al., 2018). This suggests that YP-CORE is an acceptable tool for young people with age appropriate wording and able to be completed quickly and easily. ...
There is an increasing need of outcome measures for young people suitable to evaluate treatments and routine settings. However, measures must show suitable psychometric characteristics for such use. This is the first psychometric evaluation of the Italian version of the Core Young Person Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE). Data are reported for a clinical sample, aged 11-17 (n=175) and non-clinical sample, aged 11- 17 (n=206). Analyses included acceptability, confirmatory factor analysis, internal reliability, influence of gender and age on cutoff scores and reliable change. The YP-CORE acceptability was good, with a very high completion rate (98.7% fully completed). Internal consistency was good: the overall Cronbach’s alpha value (α) equal to 0.75 (95% confidence interval=0.69-0.80). The measure was sensitive to change (Cohen dz=1.35). The Italian version of the YP-CORE showed acceptable psychometric properties is suitable for use in services for young people as a change/outcome measure.
... 35 36 and the Spanish version (α=0.72-0.86) 37 have shown good psychometric properties. ...
Introduction
Eating disorders (EDs) are complex pathologies which require equally complex treatment strategies. These strategies should be multidisciplinary, personalised interventions, performed in appropriate settings along a healthcare continuum from inpatient to community care. Personalisation, and the complexity of levels of care and interventions make evaluation of treatments difficult. The present study aims to measure the effectiveness of a complex treatment programme for EDs which includes hospitalisation, day hospital and outpatient settings. Our purpose is to assess the complete therapeutic process of each patient through all these levels of care, capturing the multiplicity of trajectories that a programme of these characteristics involves.
Methods and analysis
This protocol describes a multicentre, naturalistic, observational study. All patients starting between November 2017 and October 2020 in a healthcare network for EDs in Spain are being invited to participate. The first phase of intensive change monitoring to November 2020 is followed by lower intensity follow-up until October 2025. In the first phase progress of all participants is assessed every 3 weeks using specific measures for ED and the Clinical Outcomes Routine Evaluation system, a family of instruments specifically designed to measure change in psychotherapy. In the second phase data collection will happen quarterly. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses will be conducted, with a special focus on patterns and predictors of change studied through multilevel linear models.
Ethics and dissemination
The study has been approved by the Research Bioethics Committee of the University of Barcelona (no. IRB00003099) and the ethical committee of ITA Mental Health, the organisation to which all participating centres belong. Dissemination will be in papers for peer-reviewed research journals and to clinicians working with ED.
Trial registration number
NCT04127214 .
... In the midst these rapidly-developing changes, and seeing the need for online questionnaires to ease the process of online assessment, I was happy to help when CE asked if I would assist him in making online resources available to Spanish-speaking practitioners during the pandemic. The CORE-OM, and hence the CORE-10, had already been translated and psychometrically explored in Spanish (Trujillo et al., 2016), as had the YP-CORE (Feixas et al., 2018), and I was familiar with both of them. We began to work on making them available in Spanish on the 6th of April based on the work CE described above. ...
This paper describes three linked reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, a mix of pragmatic change and reflection that can be seen as action research. Our case studies, stories, come from the UK, Spain and Ecuador and describe three different but overlapping actions all focused on making available or using online questionnaires and drawing on counselling, psychology and psychotherapy ideas and practices and technological solutions to help address the COVID-19 crisis and the lockdown. We believe these experiences have implications for our professions.
Desde finales del siglo XX la práctica basada en la evidencia ha sido el paradigma de referencia para establecer la eficacia de los tratamientos sin que ello estuviera exento de controversia. Algunos autores cuestionan seguir un modelo de investigación médico que tiene limitaciones importantes al aplicarse a la investigación en psicoterapia. Por otro lado, el esfuerzo por preservar la validez interna en los ensayos clínicos aleatorizados dificulta la generalización de sus resultados. Además, si se sigue el paradigma basado en la evidencia para determinar qué tratamientos se aplican en los servicios de salud pública se emplean unos criterios de eficacia estáticos y excesivamente restrictivos. Las voces críticas han ido formulando propuestas que configuran un paradigma alternativo (y seguramente complementario), el de la evidencia basada en la práctica. Este enfoque de la investigación ha ganado fuerza al cubrir algunos de los vacíos de la práctica basada en la evidencia. La idea principal reside en evaluar de forma fiable y continuada con instrumentos de gran aplicabilidad (p. ej., CORE-OM) la práctica clínica real, llamada también investigación naturalística, acumulando muestras grandes, no seleccionadas. Se busca así alcanzar una alta capacidad de generalización ya que su muestra son los mismos pacientes que consultan en los servicios. A su vez, permite manejar una base de datos con la que ofrecer una retroalimentación del progreso (o deterioro) terapéutico permitiendo a los terapeutas realizar mejoras. En consecuencia, esta aproximación puede propiciar avances significativos en la investigación aplicada, contribuyendo al fortalecimiento de la psicología como disciplina científica.
