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Platforms
Mental Health Instruments Library Platform
COORDINATOR: DR. JOSEP M. HARO ABAD (G11- Fundación para la Investigación y Docencia Sant Joan de Déu)
The Instruments Library Platform provides informa- tion and service for researchers on questionnaires and measuring instruments for mental health. The bank currently has 300 instruments covering differ-
for the diagnosis and severity of Borderline Per- sonality Disorder (BPD) and assessment of the therapeutic change in clinical samples (PI: Nata- lia Calvo Piñero, G27).
ent areas of interest.
Some of the activities carried out in 2015 that are most worthy of mention are:
• Creation and distribution of an informative trip- tych on the mental health services platform, in cooperation with Otsuka pharmaceutical firm.
• Adaptation of the web page:
- New design, adapted to different mobile devices.
- Incorporation of sections: FAQ, News.
- Updated sections: Advice and research projects.
- Updated search criteria and review of all instru- ments.
- Adaptation to legislation under the LSSICE (Spanish Law on Information Society Services)
- Development of a wide range of materials for methodological support.
• Holding the VI Jornadas Formativas of the Instru- ments Bank, attended by 26 persons. This work- shop took place on 8th and 9th June, and was divided into two parts: in the first those attending were trained in techniques for developing and val- idating instruments; in the second part research- ers were asked to share their progress in projects connected with validating questionnaires. In all, two master classes and nine short presentations were given at the workshop.
• VI Intramural call for grants for research projects. 10 of the projects presented in the 2015 call were selected for financing:
- Creation and validation of the Inventory of Vital Events in Adolescents (ISVA): a relevant instru- ment for studying psychiatric disorders in chil- dren and adolescents (PI: Generós Ortet, G8).
- Validation and adaptation to Spanish of the self-report entitled Borderline Personality Disor- ders Checklist (BPD Checklist; Arntz & Dreesen, 2001; Giesen-Bloo, Arntz & Schouten, in press),
- Validation of the Apathy Evaluation Scale (AES) in schizophrenic patients (PI: Paz García Portilla; G5).
- Validation of a version of the computer-assist- ed DAY RECONSTRUCTION METHOD by item re- sponse theory (PI: Marta Miret, G3 and G11).
- Validation and adaptation to Spanish of the Bor- derline Personality Features Scale for Children-11 report (BPFSC-11; Sharp, Steinberg, Temple & Newlin, 2014), for the psychiatric diagnostic as- sessment of Borderline Personality Disorder in adolescents (PI: Natalia Calvo, G27).
- Validation of the subjective well-being scale (WHO-5) in patients with bipolar disorder (PI: Edu- ard Vieta, G25).
- Development and validation of the computer- ised version in Spanish of the film for evaluation of social cognition (Movie for Assessment of So- cial Cognition, MASC) (PI: Guillermo Lahera, G22 and G01).
- Validation of the digital version of the Corsi test (PI: Sara Siddi, G11).
- Translation and validation into Spanish of the inventory “The Symptom Onset in Schizophrenia (SOS) inventory” (PI: Miguel Bernardo, G4).
- Adaptation, validation and standardisation of the Baron-Cohen test for facial recognition of emotions in schizophrenics, with autism spec- trum disorder (ASD) and healthy controls (PI: Ju- dith Usall i Rodié, G11 and G01).
15 scientific articles were furthermore published from 2014 to 2015, and three presentations were given at Congresses, stemming from projects fi- nanced in previous calls.
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