Psychiatry and Rasch

Nalini Mahajan, Marianjoy Rehabilitation Center's Medical Librarian, recently searched the MEDLINE, PSYCINFO and SCIENCE CITATION databases for articles with "Rasch" in their title or abstract.

31 published applications of Rasch measurement in psychology and psychiatry were discovered. Of the 40 authors, only Gerhard Fischer and Hans Spada are well-known in American Rasch circles, so this is an exciting area to explore.

The articles date from 1968 to 1986. Thirteen are in German and one in Danish, but many have abstracts in English. 14 authors contributed to more than one article; two Danes, Per Bech and Peter Allerup, contributed to seven. An article followed by criticism and commentary appears in the Schizophrenia Bulletin. Two articles appear in each of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, Psychopathology, and Psychologische Beitrage. Other journals include Psychopharmacology, the Journal of Psychiatric Research, the Scandinavian Journal of Social Medicine, the Journal of Autism and Childhood Schizophrenia, the Journal of Psychology, and the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Several articles are reliability and validity studies of widely used instruments: the Hamilton Depression Scale, the Marke-Nyman Temperament Scale, the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Current, the Nurses' Observation Scale for Inpatient Evaluation, and the STAI Anxiety Questionnaire. Some of these articles criticize and attempt to re-think fundamental psychiatric constructs, such as depression and schizophrenia, on the basis of insights generated by the effort to perform additive conjoint measurement. In our next column we will examine these insights.

Psychiatry and Rasch, W Fisher Jr … Rasch Measurement Transactions, 1990, 4:2 p. 109

Rasch Books and Publications
Invariant Measurement: Using Rasch Models in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences, 2nd Edn. George Engelhard, Jr. & Jue Wang	Applying the Rasch Model (Winsteps, Facets) 4th Ed., Bond, Yan, Heene	Advances in Rasch Analyses in the Human Sciences (Winsteps, Facets) 1st Ed., Boone, Staver	Advances in Applications of Rasch Measurement in Science Education, X. Liu & W. J. Boone	Rasch Analysis in the Human Sciences (Winsteps) Boone, Staver, Yale
Introduction to Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (Facets), Thomas Eckes	Statistical Analyses for Language Testers (Facets), Rita Green	Invariant Measurement with Raters and Rating Scales: Rasch Models for Rater-Mediated Assessments (Facets), George Engelhard, Jr. & Stefanie Wind	Aplicação do Modelo de Rasch (Português), de Bond, Trevor G., Fox, Christine M	Appliquer le modèle de Rasch: Défis et pistes de solution (Winsteps) E. Dionne, S. Béland
Exploring Rating Scale Functioning for Survey Research (R, Facets), Stefanie Wind	Rasch Measurement: Applications, Khine	Winsteps Tutorials - free Facets Tutorials - free	Many-Facet Rasch Measurement (Facets) - free, J.M. Linacre	Fairness, Justice and Language Assessment (Winsteps, Facets), McNamara, Knoch, Fan
Other Rasch-Related Resources: Rasch Measurement YouTube Channel
Rasch Measurement Transactions & Rasch Measurement research papers - free	An Introduction to the Rasch Model with Examples in R (eRm, etc.), Debelak, Strobl, Zeigenfuse	Rasch Measurement Theory Analysis in R, Wind, Hua	Applying the Rasch Model in Social Sciences Using R, Lamprianou	El modelo métrico de Rasch: Fundamentación, implementación e interpretación de la medida en ciencias sociales (Spanish Edition), Manuel González-Montesinos M.
Rasch Models: Foundations, Recent Developments, and Applications, Fischer & Molenaar	Probabilistic Models for Some Intelligence and Attainment Tests, Georg Rasch	Rasch Models for Measurement, David Andrich	Constructing Measures, Mark Wilson	Best Test Design - free, Wright & Stone Rating Scale Analysis - free, Wright & Masters
Virtual Standard Setting: Setting Cut Scores, Charalambos Kollias	Diseño de Mejores Pruebas - free, Spanish Best Test Design	A Course in Rasch Measurement Theory, Andrich, Marais	Rasch Models in Health, Christensen, Kreiner, Mesba	Multivariate and Mixture Distribution Rasch Models, von Davier, Carstensen

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