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Global scales: Strengths, uses and problems of global scales as an evaluation instrument
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A quantitative model is offered to describe the relationship between global scale ratings and multidimensional facets influencing the global ratings, since the major use of a global scale is as an integrating construct.About:
This article is published in Evaluation and Program Planning.The article was published on 1980-01-01. It has received 37 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cost effectiveness.read more
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Diagnostic patterns in Latino, African American, and European American psychiatric patients.
TL;DR: Latinos in this study were more likely to be clinically diagnosed as having major depression than were other ethnic groups, and further research is needed to determine the reasons for these systematic differences.
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Assessing levels of adaptive functioning: The Role Functioning Scale
TL;DR: Data is reported on reliability and validity of the Role Functioning Scale a measure of level of functioning of adults in four domains and the Global RFS Index was significantly correlated with self-esteem and degree of disturbance.
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Health of the Nation Outcome Scales. Results of the Victorian field trial.
TL;DR: A large-scale field trial of the Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS) in Victoria, Australia, found significant associations with age and gender were found, and clients with non-psychotic disorders obtained higher ratings than those with psychotic disorders.
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Measures of impairment for children and adolescents.
Kay Hodges,Jean Gust +1 more
TL;DR: A survey of the 50 states was conducted to identify impairment measures that were used on a statewide basis; five measures were found to be used consistently and their pertinent psychometric data are presented.
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Selecting a rating scale for evaluating services to the chronically mentally ill.
Rex S. Green,Edward J. Gracely +1 more
TL;DR: Two rating scales emerged as preferred selections for monitoring the effectiveness of programs that serve the chronically mentally ill in mental health service agencies and from evaluation research experts.
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Features of Similarity
TL;DR: The metric and dimensional assumptions that underlie the geometric representation of similarity are questioned on both theoretical and empirical grounds and a set of qualitative assumptions are shown to imply the contrast model, which expresses the similarity between objects as a linear combination of the measures of their common and distinctive features.
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The Global Assessment Scale: A procedure for measuring overall severity of psychiatric disturbance.
TL;DR: The relative simplicity, reliability, and validity of the GAS suggests that it would be useful in a wide variety of clinical and research settings.
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