Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)

ABSTRACT

In China there is an increasing need for suitable measures to evaluate clinical outcomes in adolescents’ psychological counselling processes. To satisfy this purpose, this study evaluated the Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)’s psychometric properties in a Chinese context with two groups: psychiatric outpatients (clinical group: n = 232) and middle-school student controls (non-clinical group: n = 441). All the participants completed the YP-CORE, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the depression subscale of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS). The results found that the YP-CORE was highly acceptable and reliable with a two-factor solution consistent with original UK model. There were significant differences in mean YP-CORE scores by gender and age band, as well as distinct clinically significant change cut-off points. These findings suggest that the Chinese version of the YP-CORE is psychometrically acceptable for use in Chinese context.

KEYWORDS:

• YP-CORE
• adolescence
• psychometric properties
• cut-off line
• concurrent validity
• internal consistency

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Data availability statement

1. All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this article.

2. The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

Additional information

Funding

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31900767 to Y. Z.) and The Research Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Commission and The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (20dz2260300 to Y.Z.).

Notes on contributors

Ya Zhang

Ya Zhang worked on the influence factors of clinical outcomes and brain synchronisation during the process of psychological counselling in the past five years. See her recent works on https://faculty.ecnu.edu.cn/_s9/zy2/main.psp.

Recent Papers:

Zhang, Y.*, Meng, T., Yang, Y. X., & Hu, Y. (2020). Experience-dependent counsellor-client brain synchronisation during psychological counselling. Eneuro, 0236-20.2020.

Zhang, Y.*, Hu, J., Jin, L. W., Wu, M. Y., Wang, C. Y. et al. (2020). Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the clinical outcomes in routine evaluation-outcome measure (CORE-OM). British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 48, 289–299.

Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., & Ku, Y. X.* (2018). Hypnotic and non-hypnotic suggestion to ignore pre-cues decreases space-valence congruency effects in highly hypnotisable individuals. Consciousness and Cognition, 65, 293–303.

Zhang, Y., Meng, T., Hou, Y. Y., Pan, Y. F., & Hu, Y. (2018). Interpersonal brain synchronization associated with working alliance during psychological counseling. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 282, 103–109.

Zhang, Y.*, Yang,W. S., Liu, M. B., & Wu, M. Y. (2016). Challenges and difficulties about college counseling in China: Response to Portnoy (2013). Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 30, 64–74.

Juan Fan

Juan Fan, In the past thirty years, Director Juan Fan worked with the children and adolescents in local mental health centre. She was good at the intervention and counselling of adolescent’s’ psychiatry problems, conduct problems, learning disorders and emotional disorders.

Xiao Yang

Xiao Yang worked on the evaluation of psychological counselling outcomes as well as the psychological assessments in adolescents.

YiFang Lu

Yifang Lu worked on the mechanism of working alliance and outcome evaluation in the process of psychological counselling.

Qi Zhang

Qi Zhang worked on the adolescents’ mental health problems in the past twenty years.

ShiJia Li

Shijia Li worked on the mental stress and stress reaction in the past ten years.

Chris Evans

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

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