Developing Instruments for Cross‐Cultural Psychiatric Research
作者:
JOSEPH FLAHERTY,
F. GAVIRIA,
DEV PATHAK,
TIMOTHY MITCHELL,
RONALD WINTROB,
JUDITH RICHMAN,
SUSAN BIRZ,
期刊:
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
(OVID Available online 1988)
卷期:
Volume 176,
issue 5
页码: 260-263
ISSN:0022-3018
年代: 1988
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The growth of cross-cultural psychiatry is now occurring at a time when psychiatry in general is emphasizing diagnostic clarity and the use of quantifiable and reliable methods of collecting clinical and research data. It is now imperative that cross-cultural psychiatry also examine its methods for developing instruments for use in cross-cultural research. This paper outlines a method for developing instruments designed in one culture for use in a second, and particular attention is given to cross-cultural validity or equivalence. Five types of equivalence are enumerated and defined: content, semantic, technical, criterion, and conceptual equivalence. These concepts are illustrated by examples from the authors' experience in research on internal migrants in Peru.
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