CONCEPTUALIZATION & PATTERN MATCHING METH. IN MNTL HLTH

概念化

• 批准号: 3386558
• 负责人: WILLIAM Michael TROCHIM
• 金额: $ 14.84万
• 依托单位: CORNELL UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-30 至 1994-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3386558
• 关键词: computer simulation; health science research analysis /evaluation; mental disorders; mental health

The purpose of this project is to examine the use of two new methodologies in the context of mental health research broadly conceived, including research related to mental health administration, planning and evaluation. Concept mapping is a structured process used with small groups (10-20 persons) who wish to lay out and prioritize a conceptual framework for some topic. The group brainstorms a large (up to 100) set of statements relevant to the focus topic; each person sorts these into piles of similar statements and rates them for importance; and the data are analyzed using multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis to yield pictures (concept maps) of the statements and broader clusters of statements in two dimensions which the group then interprets and utilizes. Pattern matching is a methodology that attempts to assess the correspondence between stakeholder's implicit perceptions or theories about some topic and the patterns in relevant data. It can be used to assess program or treatment implementation (correspondence between ideal and operational program), the construct validity of measures (correspondence between theoretical conceptual framework and patterns of variable intercorrelations), the outcomes of programs (correspondence between hypothesized and observed effect sizes across variables), or the generalizability of results (correspondence between hypothesized and observed pattern of effects across individual research participants). In this project these methodologies will be examined in a wide variety of mental health contexts including (but not limited to): outcome studies of supported employment programs for persons with severe mental illness; measurement construction for studies of adolescents with severe mental illness; strategic planning and evaluation efforts; studies to involve consumers and providers in developing a conceptual framework for comprehensive community-based care for persons with severe mental illness; and, the development of a state-level database for the measurement of mental health outcome variables. Instruments will be designed to assess the performance of these methodologies in these and other mental health contexts in an attempt to assess where such methods have potential and where they may be inappropriate. Important methodological questions involve the potential for such methods in helping consumers of mental health services to articulate their implicit ideas about such service, and the relative advantages of alternative processes for implementing these two methodologies.

该项目的目的是检查两种新方法的使用 在心理健康研究的背景下，包括 与心理健康管理，计划和评估有关的研究。 概念映射是与小组一起使用的结构化过程（10-20 想要布置并优先考虑某些概念框架的人） 话题。 小组集思广益，一组大（最多100）的陈述 与重点主题相关；每个人将它们分为一堆相似 陈述和评估它们的重要性；并使用 多维缩放和聚类分析以产生图片（概念 陈述）的陈述和更广泛的语句簇 然后小组解释和利用的尺寸。 模式匹配 是一种试图评估对应关系的方法 利益相关者对某个主题的隐性看法或理论 相关数据中的模式。 它可用于评估程序或治疗 实施（理想和操作计划之间的对应关系）， 度量的构造有效性（理论之间的对应关系 可变相关的概念框架和模式）， 程序的结果（假设和观察到的对应关系 跨变量的效果尺寸）或结果的普遍性 （假设和观察到的效果模式之间的对应关系 个人研究参与者）。 在这个项目中这些方法论 将在包括（但是 不限于）：支持的就业计划的结果研究 患有严重精神疾病的人；研究的测量结构 患有严重精神疾病的青少年；战略规划和评估 努力；研究使消费者和提供者参与开发 针对人的全面社区护理的概念框架 严重的精神疾病；而且，发展一个国家级数据库 用于测量心理健康结果变量。 乐器会 旨在评估这些方法的性能， 其他心理健康环境，试图评估这种方法的位置 有潜力和可能不合适的地方。 重要的 方法论问题涉及这种方法的潜力 精神卫生服务的消费者阐明他们的隐性思想 关于此类服务以及替代过程的相对优势 用于实施这两种方法。