School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Center for Rural Health, University of North Dakota.
Department of Counseling Psychology and Community Services, University of North Dakota.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2019;89(4):534-541. doi: 10.1037/ort0000309. Epub 2018 Jan 18.
Numerous psychometric measurements are used to assess for mental health problems in Native American and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) populations; however, few studies have been carried out to assess their validity and reliability within these populations. This study was designed to assess the validity and reliability of numerous measures among the Northern Plains Indians. This article is a partial report, focused on the psychometric measures directed at detecting depression, namely the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) II, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale, the Tri-Ethnic Depression Scale (TEDS), the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and the Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Results revealed moderate to strong correlation across all measures, alpha coefficients that exceeded published alphas for the general population, and overall indicated their validity and reliability of these measures, and a 2-factor solution for the BDI-II. While there were limitations to the study, analysis of the results supports the use of each measure with the Northern Plains Indians (NPI) subpopulation, that the NPI subpopulation scored similar to the general population. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
大量的心理测量学方法被用于评估美国原住民和阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）群体的心理健康问题；然而，在这些群体中，很少有研究评估其有效性和可靠性。本研究旨在评估北平原印第安人（NPIs）中大量测量方法的有效性和可靠性。本文是一个部分报告，重点关注用于检测抑郁的心理测量学方法，即贝克抑郁量表（BDI）第二版、流行病学研究中心抑郁量表（CES-D）、三民族抑郁量表（TEDS）、贝克绝望量表（BHS）、贝克焦虑量表（BAI）和症状清单-90 修订版（SCL-90-R）。结果表明，所有测量方法之间的相关性都在中等至强之间，alpha 系数超过了一般人群的已发表 alpha 值，总体上表明了这些方法的有效性和可靠性，BDI-II 的 2 因素解决方案。虽然研究存在局限性，但结果分析支持使用每种测量方法对北平原印第安人（NPI）亚群进行测量，NPI 亚群的得分与一般人群相似。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
