Donohue Brad, Scott Jesse, Goodwin Grace, Barchard Kimberly A, Bohall Greg, Allen Daniel N
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States.
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL, United States.
Front Psychol. 2023 Aug 4;14:1029229. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1029229. eCollection 2023.
There is a need to psychometrically develop assessment instruments capable of screening mental health disorders in athlete populations. The current study was conducted to determine reliability, validity and clinical utility of the Mental Health Disorders Screening Instrument for Athletes (MHDSIA).
259 collegiate athletes completed the MHDSIA. Factor analysis determined a single factor with good internal consistency, and this factor was positively correlated with an established measure of psychiatric symptomology (Symptom Checklist 90-R), demonstrating its concurrent validity. An optimum clinical cutoff score (i.e., 32) was determined using Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analyses to assist appropriate mental health referrals.
Results suggest the MHSIA is a reliable, valid, and relatively quick and easy to interpret screen for the broad spectrum of mental health disorders in collegiate athletes. As expected, NCAA athletes reported lower MHDSIA scores than club and intramural athletes, while males reported similar severity scores as females.
有必要从心理测量学角度开发能够筛查运动员群体心理健康障碍的评估工具。本研究旨在确定运动员心理健康障碍筛查工具（MHDSIA）的信度、效度和临床实用性。
259名大学生运动员完成了MHDSIA测试。因素分析确定了一个具有良好内部一致性的单一因素，该因素与既定的精神症状测量指标（症状自评量表90修订版）呈正相关，证明了其同时效度。使用受试者工作特征（ROC）分析确定了一个最佳临床临界分数（即32），以协助进行适当的心理健康转诊。
结果表明，MHSIA是一种可靠、有效且相对快速、易于解读的筛查工具，可用于筛查大学生运动员广泛的心理健康障碍。不出所料，美国全国大学体育协会（NCAA）的运动员报告的MHDSIA分数低于俱乐部和校内运动员，而男性报告的严重程度分数与女性相似。
