Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203-5721, USA.
Adm Policy Ment Health. 2012 Mar;39(1-2):118-32. doi: 10.1007/s10488-012-0408-x.
Treatment motivation can be important for treatment adherence and outcomes, yet few measures of motivation are available for youths in mental health settings. These authors describe the psychometric properties of the motivation for youth's treatment scale (MYTS), an 8-item measure with forms for youths and caregivers that assesses their problem recognition and treatment readiness. Results indicate that the MYTS offers practitioners and researchers a brief, psychometrically sound tool for assessing treatment motivation of youths and their caregivers. Multivariate analyses of clinical and non-clinical characteristics of youths and caregivers show that youths' symptom severity consistently predicts treatment motivation for both groups. However, the strain of caring for the youth adds significantly to caregivers' recognition of the youth's troubles. While caregiver and youth motivations correlate, their agreement is low. Caregivers are nearly always more treatment motivated than youths. The authors discuss the implications of their findings for measurement, treatment planning, and future research.
治疗动机对于治疗依从性和结果很重要，但在心理健康环境中，很少有针对年轻人的动机测量工具。本文作者描述了青少年治疗动机量表（MYTS）的心理测量学特性，该量表由 8 个项目组成，有青少年和照顾者两个版本，用于评估他们对问题的认识和治疗准备情况。结果表明，该量表为从业者和研究人员提供了一种简短、具有良好心理测量学特性的工具，用于评估青少年及其照顾者的治疗动机。对青少年和照顾者的临床和非临床特征的多变量分析表明，青少年的症状严重程度始终可以预测两组的治疗动机。然而，照顾青少年的压力会显著增加照顾者对青少年问题的认识。虽然照顾者和青少年的动机呈正相关，但他们的一致性较低。照顾者的治疗动机通常比青少年更强烈。作者讨论了他们的研究结果对测量、治疗计划和未来研究的意义。
