Evaluating a Measure of Social Health Derived from Two Mental Health Recovery Measures: The California Quality of Life (CA-QOL) and Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program Consumer Survey (MHSIP)

Social health is important to measure when assessing outcomes in community mental health. Our objective was to validate social health scales using items from two broader commonly used measures that assess mental health outcomes. Participants were 609 adults receiving psychological treatment services...

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Published in:Community mental health journal 2011-08, Vol.47 (4), p.454-462
Main Authors: Carlson, Jordan A., Sarkin, Andrew J., Levack, Ashley E., Sklar, Marisa, Tally, Steven R., Gilmer, Todd P., Groessl, Erik J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adults
Aged
Anxiety
Biological and medical sciences
California
Community and Environmental Psychology
Community mental health services
Female
Health
Health Care Surveys
Health services
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental depression
Mental disorders
Mental Disorders - rehabilitation
Mental Health
Mental health care
Middle Aged
Original Paper
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) - statistics & numerical data
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - statistics & numerical data
Psychiatry
Psychological intervention
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics - statistics & numerical data
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality of Life
Questionnaires
Recovery (Medical)
Reproducibility of Results
Schizophrenia
Social Adjustment
Social functioning
Social psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Techniques and methods
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Summary:Social health is important to measure when assessing outcomes in community mental health. Our objective was to validate social health scales using items from two broader commonly used measures that assess mental health outcomes. Participants were 609 adults receiving psychological treatment services. Items were identified from the California Quality of Life (CA-QOL) and Mental Health Statistics Improvement Program (MHSIP) outcome measures by their conceptual correspondence with social health and compared to the Social Functioning Questionnaire (SFQ) using correlational analyses. Pearson correlations for the identified CA-QOL and MSHIP items with the SFQ ranged from .42 to .62, and the identified scale scores produced Pearson correlation coefficients of .56, .70, and, .70 with the SFQ. Concurrent validity with social health was supported for the identified scales. The current inclusion of these assessment tools allows community mental health programs to include social health in their assessments.
ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1007/s10597-010-9347-8