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Oliver Rumle Hovmand1,2,3, Nina Reinholt3, Anne Bryde Christensen4,5
1Psychiatry South, Region Zealand Mental Health Service, Vordingborg, Denmark.
Background:
It is important to assess patients' level of readiness before starting a course of psychotherapy, but only a few validated instruments are currently available for that purpose.
Methods:
Patients waiting for psychotherapy were administered the Danish translations of the University of Rhode Island Change Assessment Scale (URICA) and the Readiness for Psychotherapy Index (RPI) prior to commencing psychotherapy. We conducted confirmatory factor analysis of the instruments' previously suggested factor structure, as well as evaluating the instruments' ability to identify early adherence to psychotherapy by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and regression analysis.
Results:
One hundred and fifty-five patients with emotional, personality, and post-traumatic stress disorders were included. The instruments showed poor to average psychometric properties and poor predictive validity regarding early adherence to psychotherapy.
Discussion:
Findings indicated that the Danish URICA and RPI possess average psychometric properties and have limited validity for predicting early adherence to psychotherapy in psychiatric outpatients awaiting psychotherapy.
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