Fava Giovanni A, Belaise Carlotta
Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, viale Berti Pichat 5, 40127 Bologna, Italy.
J Clin Epidemiol. 2005 Aug;58(8):753-6. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2004.12.006.
Psychometric theory is the basis for the development of assessment instruments in psychiatric research.
It has produced a number of variable methods for improving the validity and reliability of clinical assessment. However, the psychometric model appears to be largely inadequate in the clinical setting because of its lack of sensitivity to change and its quest for homogeneous components.
Clinimetrics offers a viable integration to psychometrics, both from a conceptual and a methodologic viewpoint.
Without such integration, psychometric rules and methods may lead to misleading effects in clinical research both in psychiatry and medicine.
心理测量理论是精神病学研究中评估工具开发的基础。
它产生了许多用于提高临床评估效度和信度的可变方法。然而，由于心理测量模型对变化缺乏敏感性且追求同质性成分，在临床环境中似乎很大程度上并不适用。
从概念和方法学角度来看，临床测量学为心理测量学提供了一种可行的整合方式。
没有这种整合，心理测量规则和方法可能会在精神病学和医学的临床研究中产生误导性影响。
