How Psychometrically Sound Is the Transplant Evaluation Rating Scale for Bone Marrow Tansplant Recipients?

This paper explores the psychometrics and clinical utility of the Transplant Evaluation Rating Scale (TERS) for bone marrow transplant recipients. On a sample of 345, the TERS exhibits good inter-rater reliability and internal consistency, better than the Psychosocial Levels System (PLS), its precur...

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Published inPsychosomatics (Washington, D.C.) Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 490 - 496
Main Authors Hoodin, Flora, Kalbfleisch, Karen R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, DC Elsevier Inc 01.11.2001
American Psychiatric Press
Subjects
Biological and medical sciences
Medical sciences
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychometrics. Diagnostic aid systems
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Techniques and methods
Human
Disease
Evaluation scale
Prediction
Homograft
Psychometrics
Revised drafting
Test reliability
Bone marrow disease
Item analysis
Test validation
Interrater agreement
Treatment
Follow up study
Risk factor
Graft
Complication
Somatic disease
Psychometric standardization
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Summary:This paper explores the psychometrics and clinical utility of the Transplant Evaluation Rating Scale (TERS) for bone marrow transplant recipients. On a sample of 345, the TERS exhibits good inter-rater reliability and internal consistency, better than the Psychosocial Levels System (PLS), its precursor, and thus psychometrically justifies the TERS revisions. Addressing a noted gap in the literature, this paper empirically evaluates the TERS weighting system and concludes that it provides no additional predictive utility relative to simply summing unweighted item scores. Finally, this paper’s descriptive scale norms for the TERS provide guidance for clinical interpretation of TERS scores.
ISSN:0033-3182
1545-7206
DOI:10.1176/appi.psy.42.6.490