Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the clinical outcomes in routine evaluation-outcome measure (CORE-OM)

ABSTRACT

To develop the Chinese version of Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) and examine its psychometric properties, we investigated a sample of 689 non-clinical and 309 clinical participants and found this measurement had good acceptability, internal reliability, test-retest reliability and convergent validity; it had moderate correlations with the Schwartz Outcome Scale and Symptom Check List-90, which showed an acceptable concurrent validity. Specifically, we explored the cut-off line of clinical criterion and found a g factor plus three-factor solution better than original four-domain model in Chinese context. The CORE-OM is a valid tool with referenced cut-offs to measure clinical outcomes, which can bridge the gap in routine clinical evaluation in China.

KEYWORDS:

• CORE-OM
• reliability
• validity
• factor structure
• Chinese context

Acknowledgements

We thank Jinmei Qin and Li Zhang for helping collecting the data.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Dr. Ya Zhang has worked on the influence factors of clinical outcomes and brain synchronisation during the process of psychological counselling in the past four years. She has also focused on the mechanism of the hypnotic process by using event-related potential (ERPs) and fNIRs.

Miss Jing Hu has worked on the evaluation of psychological counselling outcomes in university mental healthy services.

Prof. Chris Evans and his colleagues published the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE-OM, England version) in 2002. In the past 20 years, he has continued to work on the CORE-OM and CORE system.

Li Wei Jin has worked on the evaluation of psychological counselling outcomes in university mental health services.

Meng Yang Wu is a staff counsellor in Counselling and Psychological Services and she has provided psychological counselling to college students for five years.

Chun Yin Wang is a staff counsellor in Counselling and Psychological Services and she has provided psychological counselling to college students for five years.

Xiao Jin Zhang, is an attending doctor from Changning district Mental Health Center, China.

Wei Hong Lu, is an attending doctor from Shanghai Mental Health Center, China.

Prof. Guo Peng Chen has worked in the field of psychological assessment for the past 20 years.

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Funding

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 31900767]; MOE (Ministry of Education in China) Youth Foundation Project of Humanities and Social Sciences [grant number 17YJC190031].