ReviewPsychological assessment2019
Advances in applications of item response theory to clinical assessment.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Proxy-reported sensory measures for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders: A systematic review.Developmental medicine and child neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Revised Chinese resident health literacy scale for the older adults in China: simplified version and initial validity testing.Frontiers in public health · 2023Trial
- Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Child Behaviour Checklist in the ABCD Study.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Cognitive Diagnosis Computerized Adaptive Testing (CD-CAT) for Adolescent Internet Gaming Disorder: A Conceptual Assessment Framework.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Key challenges in nurse-led foot care education for persons with diabetes: an international survey across six countries.BMC nursing · 2026Article
- Development and validation of the eight item contrast avoidance questionnaire-general emotion scale (CAQ-GE-8): An item-response theory analysis.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2026Article
- Measuring trust in public health authorities in the United States: An item response theory analysis.PloS one · 2026Article
- Development and Rasch Validation of the Parental Topical Corticosteroid Phobia Scale (PTCPS) in Pediatric Eczema Care.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the UCLA-8 loneliness scale among structurally vulnerable older adults in rural India: implications for equity-oriented screening in primary health care.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Advancing Pediatric Cognitive Health: Psychometric Evaluation and IRT- and Regression-Based Norms for Two Neuropsychological Measures in Colombian Children and Adolescents.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Understanding Health Care Workers' Attitudes and Preferences Toward Digital Patient Monitoring Platforms: Cross-Country Survey Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Dysphagia-Specific Instrument Based on Item Response Theory and International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health.Dysphagia · 2025Article
- Modification and Validation of the Chinese Short-Form Aging Perception Questionnaire: A Psychometric Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Psychometric validation of ICF Rehabilitation Set-17 through item response theory and network analysis: implications for standardized functioning assessment in Chinese inpatient rehabilitation.European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine · 2025Article
- Handling missing data in variational autoencoder based item response theory.The British journal of mathematical and statistical psychology · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the short mood and feelings scale among Chinese adolescents using item response theory.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Brief Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (BMSLSS) in Chilean early adolescents: an Item Response Theory analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- IRT analysis of the BDI-II for early online depression detection: validation in a Mexican population.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and alterations in plasma microRNA profiles in children.Environmental research · 2024Article
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Abstract
Item response theory (IRT) is moving to the forefront of methodologies used to develop, evaluate, and score clinical measures. Funding agencies and test developers are routinely supporting IRT work, and the theory has become closely tied to technological advances within the field. As a result, familiarity with IRT has grown increasingly relevant to mental health research and practice. But to what end? This article reviews advances in applications of IRT to clinical measurement in an effort to identify tangible improvements that can be attributed to the methodology. Although IRT shares similarities with classical test theory and factor analysis, the approach has certain practical benefits, but also limitations, when applied to measurement challenges. Major opportunities include the use of computerized adaptive tests to prevent conditional measurement error, multidimensional models to prevent misinterpretation of scores, and analyses of differential item functioning to prevent bias. Whereas these methods and technologies were once only discussed as future possibilities, they are now accessible because of recent support of IRT-focused clinical research. Despite this, much work still remains in widely disseminating methods and technologies from IRT into mental health research and practice. Clinicians have been reluctant to fully embrace the approach, especially in terms or prospective test development and adaptive item administration. Widespread use of IRT technologies will require continued cooperation among psychometricians, clinicians, and other stakeholders. There are also many opportunities to expand the methodology, especially with respect to integrating modern measurement theory with models from personality and cognitive psychology as well as neuroscience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
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