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Publication Date: 2013-Apr
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Development of a Scale to Assess Knowledge about Suicide Postvention Using Item Response Theory
Nader, Ingo W.; Niederkrotenthaler, Thomas; Schild, Anne H. E.; Koller, Ingrid; Tran, Ulrich S.; Kapusta, Nestor D.; Sonneck, Gernot; Voracek, Martin
Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, v43 n2 p174-184 Apr 2013
Knowledge about suicide postvention (KSPV) is an important distal outcome in the evaluation of suicide prevention programs that focus on the bereaved. However, most scales are specifically tailored to the evaluation study in question and psychometric properties are often unsatisfactory. Therefore, we developed the KSPV scale. Scale properties were investigated with Rasch trees, a newly developed method in the framework of item response theory. Additionally, we provide cues for convergent validity. In summary, the scale shows satisfactory properties for assessing KSPV and could be used to evaluate suicide postvention programs more effectively. (Contains 2 tables and 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Suicide, Item Response Theory, Measures (Individuals), Test Construction, Test Validity, Intervention, Test Bias, Foreign Countries
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Austria
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