The utility of self-perceived health ratings in screening volunteers for mental health research

Alison Gibbons; Margaret Rose Mahoney; Joyce Y Chung

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114273

The utility of self-perceived health ratings in screening volunteers for mental health research

Psychiatry Res. 2021 Dec:306:114273. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114273. Epub 2021 Nov 8.

Authors

Alison Gibbons¹, Margaret Rose Mahoney², Joyce Y Chung³

Affiliations

¹ National Institute of Mental Health, Office of the Clinical Director, 10 Center Drive, NIH Building 10, Room 6-5340, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States.
² Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Electronic address: margaret.r.mahoney@vanderbilt.edu.
³ National Institute of Mental Health, Office of the Clinical Director, 10 Center Drive, NIH Building 10, Room 6-5340, Bethesda, MD 20892, United States. Electronic address: joyce.chung@nih.gov.

Abstract

We report on the utility of online self-perceived medical and mental health ratings (SPH) when screening healthy volunteers for mental health research. These one-item ratings were correlated with eligibility decisions and longer clinical surveys. We found correlations between SPH ratings and blinded clinician ratings of volunteer medical and mental health after an in-person evaluation, although additional analysis revealed poor reliability between clinician and volunteer ratings. SPH ratings are a useful addition to screening methods for research studies.

Keywords: Healthy volunteers; Mental health research; Screening; Self-perceived health.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Intramural

MeSH terms

Health Status
Humans
Mental Health*
Reproducibility of Results
Surveys and Questionnaires
Volunteers*

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding