Psychometrics of a MH Cultural Competency Scale

MH 文化能力量表的心理测量

• 批准号: 7069108
• 负责人: CAROLE E SIEGEL
• 金额: $ 24.77万
• 依托单位: NATHAN S. KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCH RES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至 2008-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7069108
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; culture; health care quality; health care service evaluation; health services research tag; human data; human subject; mental health services; outpatient care; psychometrics; technology /technique development

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A 2.5 year project is proposed to establish the psychometric properties of a newly developed scale, the Cultural Competency (CC) Assessment Scale (CCAS), an organizational level instrument that measures the cultural competence of a behavioral health care organization. Based on the widely held belief that culturally competent health care will act to ameliorate the documented problems cultural groups experience in their access to, receipt of and outcomes of treatment, a scale that measures the CC of an organization could monitor progress towards attainment of CC, and proactively promote the implementation of activities that increase CC. The scale was developed with stakeholder involvement from multicultural groups based on prior work of the field and the research team. The endorsement of the scale, however, requires scientific based evidence that it is reliable and valid. In collaboration with Coordinated Care Services Inc., a NYS Monroe County Behavioral health care management company used by Monroe County OMH to manage its contract agencies, CCAS ratings will be made at 27 outpatient service sites that serve significant numbers of Latinos and African Americans. Setting raters will rate their own site as well as written scenarios of over 30 other sites, and an expert rater will rate all sites. These data will be used to examine inter-rater reliability, accuracy, and construct validity. The service data of two consecutive client cohorts of new admissions in a year (approximately 8,000 persons/year), and of a service user cohort (approximately 25,000 persons/year), obtained from a computerized information system maintained by CCIS, will be used to measure predictive validity by examining whether higher levels of CC predict lower rates of service disparities between minority and majority population groups.

描述（由申请人提供）：提出了一个2。5年的项目，以建立新开发的量表的心理计量学特性，即文化能力（CC）评估量表（CCAS），这是一种衡量行为保健组织的文化能力的组织级工具。基于人们普遍认为，具有文化胜任的医疗保健将采取行动来改善文化群体在获得，接收和结果方面的经验，这一量表衡量组织的CC可以监控在CC方面的进步，并积极促进增加CC的活动的实施。该量表是根据现场和研究团队的先前工作的多元文化群体的利益相关者参与而开发的。但是，对规模的认可需要基于科学的证据，表明它是可靠和有效的。与协调的护理服务公司合作，Monroe County OMH使用纽约州Monroe County County County Health Carey管理公司来管理其合同机构，CCAS评级将在27个门诊服务地点进行，这些服务网站为大量拉丁裔和非裔美国人提供服务。设定评估者将对自己的网站以及其他30多个网站的书面方案进行评分，专家评估者将对所有站点进行评分。这些数据将用于检查评估者间的可靠性，准确性和构建有效性。一年（约8,000人/年）连续两次新入院的服务数据以及服务用户同类（约25,000人/年）的服务数据，从CCIS维护的计算机信息系统中获得的服务数据将用于测量预测有效性，以检查较高的CC少数少数和多数少数人之间的较低水平，以衡量较高的少数少数和多数级别的服务率。