The Psychometric Properties of Children´s Impact of Event Scale Administered via Mobile Phone

Author

Zhu, Zhuo-Hong ; Huang, Fei ; Wang, Wen-Zhong ; Zhang, Jian-Xin ; Ji, Yang ; Zhang, Kui

Author_Institution

Instn. of Psychol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This study was design to test the reliability and validity of test via mobile phone based platform (MPBT) administered into potential PTSD sufferings in Mianzhu, Sichuan province, and examine the equivalence with traditional paper-and-pencil test (PPT) counterpart and gender differences. In the case of Children´s Revised Impact of Event Scale (CRIES), the MPBT form had acceptable psychometric properties, equivalence with PPT form and no gender differences. These results prove the application of mobile phone to assess and monitor the psychological state of users to be a useful and valid way.

Keywords

mobile handsets; psychometric testing; telemedicine; children revised impact; event scale administered via mobile phone; gender differences; paper-and-pencil test; psychological state; psychometric property; test via mobile phone based platform; Abstracts; Advertising; Data structures; Frequency; Information analysis; Mobile handsets; Monitoring; Power generation; Psychology; Psychometric testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163647

Filename

5163647