A very short Symptom Checklist-90-R version for routine outcome monitoring in psychotherapy; The SCL-3/7.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) is applied in many physical and mental health treatments. The treatment course is monitored with patient reported outcome measures (PROMs). A potential problem with PROM is response burden. This can be decreased by presenting such measures with less and better selected items. The SCL-90-R is an often used PROM for psychotherapies and a number of very short forms have been developed; the SCL-5, SCL-8, SCL-9 and SCL-10. This study aims to develop a new very short form, the symptom checklist 3 out of 7 (SCL-3/7) and to evaluate the effectiveness of these PROM with the precision relative to the complete SCL-90-R score.

Methods

Item Response Theory analysis was applied to select the 7 best discriminating items, evenly distributed over th

SUBMITTER: Timman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9303250 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature