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The CORE-OM in an older adult population
— psychometric status, acceptability and feasibility | | Author(s) | M Barkham, A Culverwell, K Spindler |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 9, no 3, May 2005 |
| Pages | pp 235-245 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Evaluation ; Performance. |
| Annotation | There is a need to extend and test the feasibility and acceptability of mental health outcome measures in the older population (i.e. aged 65-100). The authors present data on the CORE-OM (Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation - Output Measure) on a sample of 118 people aged 65-97 presenting for mental health recruitment and 214 people aged 65-94 drawn from a non-clinical population. Results show CORE-OM to be a reliable measure in both samples when the overall mean item is used but eh reliability is not high for the specific domains as psychometrically stable structures. The CORE-OM showed large overall differences between the non-clinical and clinical samples, indicating that it is equally as sensitive to these differing populations across this older age band as with working age adults. However, the norms for the clinical sample were consistently lower than the equivalent clinical norms for a working-age sample. These findings suggest that the collection and compilation of age-specific norms is crucial in ensuring that appropriately referenced norms are used rather than assuming that norms are generalisable across the whole adult life-span. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050610208 A |
| Classmark | DA: 4C: 5H |
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