July 31, 2020Frontiers in PsychiatryOpen Access

Further Insights Into the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS): Unidimensionality Among Psychiatric Inpatients

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Why the study?

Short versions of the Beck Hopelessness Scale were created using Classical Test Theory, which has been repeatedly criticized.

Population

492 psychiatrically hospitalized adult patients

Authors

MBMichela BalsamoUniversity of Chieti-Pescara LCLeonardo CarlucciUniversity of Foggia MIMarco InnamoratiEuropean University of Rome

Discussion

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Overview

May warrant testing of the IRT-refined BHS in clinical settings; leaves open validation and superiority over classical versions.

Structured PICO

Population

492 psychiatrically hospitalized adult patients (51.2% females), predominantly with a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder type II

Intervention

Item Response Theory approach (Mokken Scale Analysis) to refine and shorten the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)

Outcome

Discriminant validity in categorizing psychiatric inpatients with high/medium suicidal risk and patients with and without suicide attemptspatient reported

A newly developed 9-item Beck Hopelessness Scale using Item Response Theory demonstrates high sensitivity for suicidal risk assessment in psychiatric inpatients.

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Balsamo et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a738809644e61a44f4e6450 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00727

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July 31, 2020Frontiers in PsychiatryOpen Access

Further Insights Into the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS): Unidimensionality Among Psychiatric Inpatients

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Why the study?

Short versions of the Beck Hopelessness Scale were created using Classical Test Theory, which has been repeatedly criticized.

Population

492 psychiatrically hospitalized adult patients

Authors

MBMichela BalsamoUniversity of Chieti-Pescara LCLeonardo CarlucciUniversity of Foggia MIMarco InnamoratiEuropean University of Rome

Discussion

Member takes

Overview

May warrant testing of the IRT-refined BHS in clinical settings; leaves open validation and superiority over classical versions.

Structured PICO

Population

492 psychiatrically hospitalized adult patients (51.2% females), predominantly with a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder type II

Intervention

Item Response Theory approach (Mokken Scale Analysis) to refine and shorten the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS)

Outcome

Discriminant validity in categorizing psychiatric inpatients with high/medium suicidal risk and patients with and without suicide attemptspatient reported

A newly developed 9-item Beck Hopelessness Scale using Item Response Theory demonstrates high sensitivity for suicidal risk assessment in psychiatric inpatients.

Cite This Study

Balsamo et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a738809644e61a44f4e6450 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00727

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