Universal psychosocial screening for post-secondary students with HEARTSMAP-U : evidence for inter-rater reliability
department or school: Medicine, Faculty of
department or school: Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Burt, Heather
issued: 2021-08-27T15:46:50Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Master of Science - MSc
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Post-secondary students are typically assuming greater life responsibilities and independence, which can become emotionally overwhelming, resulting in a high prevalence of psychosocial issues. At a time when many young adults are moving away from their support networks and transitioning from pediatric to adult health care systems, there is a perceived lack of resources and numerous barriers to mental health treatment. A digital psychosocial self-assessment and guidance tool for post-secondary students (HEARTSMAP-U) was adapted to address this growing concern. HEARTSMAP-U has already undergone comprehensive adaptation and evaluation work among both a broad population of clinicians who support young adults in post-secondary education, as well as among post-secondary students themselves. Through a multiphasic study, this research aimed to 1) evaluate the inter-rater reliability of HEARTSMAP-U among young adults pursuing post-secondary education, as applied to a set of fictional cases, and 2) evaluate, on the same set of fictional cases, the scoring agreement between student and clinician assessors. In Phase 1 (n = 15), an iterative process was used to evaluate the fictional vignettes for comprehensiveness and clarity. Feedback received was reviewed and incorporated into the next version of the vignette and this process was conducted four times until all comments were positive and saturated. In Phase 2 (n = 34), HEARTSMAP-U’s inter-rater reliability was evaluated among post-secondary students. Students displayed substantial to near perfect inter-rater scoring agreement in applying HEARTSMAP-U to the finalized fictional clinical vignettes, with weighted kappas on tool domains ranging from 0.72 (Student Health; 95% CI: 0.71, 0.73) to 0.81 (Psychiatry; 95% CI: 0.80, 0.82). In Phase 3, a clinician applied HEARTSMAP-U to the same vignettes and a large proportion of scoring agreement was found between student and clinician responses (median range 0.82-0.85) on concern severit…
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note: UNIVERSAL PSYCHOSOCIAL SCREENING FOR POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH HEARTSMAP-U: EVIDENCE FOR INTER-RATER RELIABILITY by Heather Burt B.A., Colgate University, 2019 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE in The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (Population and Public Health) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) August 2021 © Heather Burt, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, a thesis entitled: UNIVERSAL PSYCHOSOCIAL SCREENING FOR POST-SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH HEARTSMAP-U: EVIDENCE FOR INTER-RATER RELIABILITY submitted by Heather Burt in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Population and Public Health Examining Committee: Quynh Doan, Associate Member, School of Population and Public Health, UBC Co-supervisor Anne Gadermann, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC Co-supervisor Daniel Vigo, Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UBC Committee Member Brenda Poon, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, UBC Additional Examiner iii Abstract Post-secondary students are typically assuming greater life responsibilities and independence, which can become emotionally overwhelming, resulting in a high prevalence of psychosocial issues. At a time when many young adults are moving away from their support networks and transitioning from pediatric to adult health care systems, there is a perceived lack of resources and numerous barriers to mental health treatment. A digital psychosocial self-assessment and guidance tool for post-secondary students (HEARTSMAP-U) was adapted to address this growing concern. HEARTSMAP-U has already undergone comprehensive adaptation and evaluation work among both a broad population of clinicians who support young adults in post-secondary education, as well as among post-secondary student…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2021-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0401765
language: eng
degree discipline: Population and Public Health
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Doan, Quynh
contributor: Gadermann, Anne
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/79483