Developing a measure of adaptive stress arising from the psychosocial disruptions experienced by refugees based on a sample of displaced persons from West Papua.


Journal

International journal of methods in psychiatric research
ISSN: 1557-0657
Titre abrégé: Int J Methods Psychiatr Res
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9111433

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
03 2019
Historique:
received: 21 08 2017
revised: 23 11 2018
accepted: 01 12 2018
pubmed: 12 2 2019
medline: 16 1 2020
entrez: 12 2 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

We report the testing and refinement of the Adaptive Stress Index (ASI), a psychosocial assessment tool designed to measure the longer terms stressors of adapting to the psychosocial disruptions experienced by refugees. The ASI is based on a theoretical model, the Adaptation and Development After Persecution and Trauma (ADAPT), which postulates that five psychosocial domains are disrupted by conflict and displacement, namely, safety and security, attachment, access to justice, roles and identities, and existential meaning. We used confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and item response theory (IRT) to shorten and refine the measure based on data obtained from 487 refugees participating in a household survey in Papua New Guinea (response rate: 85.8%). CFA allowed the exclusion of low loading items (<0.5) and locally dependent items. A good fit was found for single models representing each of the five ASI domains. A graded response IRT model identified items with the highest discrimination and information content in each of the five derived scales. The analysis produced a shortened and refined ASI for use amongst refugee populations. The study offers a guide to adapting measures of stress for application to diverse populations exposed to mass conflict and refugee displacement.

Identifiants

pubmed: 30740811
doi: 10.1002/mpr.1770
pmc: PMC6877204
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

e1770

Informations de copyright

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Auteurs

Alvin Kuowei Tay (AK)

The Academic Mental Health Unit, Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Susan Rees (S)

The Academic Mental Health Unit, Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Natalino Tam (N)

The Academic Mental Health Unit, Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Moses Kareth (M)

The Academic Mental Health Unit, Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

Derrick Silove (D)

The Academic Mental Health Unit, Psychiatry Research and Teaching Unit, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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