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. 2024 Apr 5;15:1327783. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1327783

Table 5.

Other instruments.

Nr Instrument, Author Items/Time/format Domains assessed Reliability Validity
1 Semi-structured interview
1 study:
Lynch et al., 2018
Face-to-face or telephone & audio recorded
Time: 20 – 51 minutes
Response: Grounded theory
Experience of art therapy following first diagnosis of psychiatric disorder
Processes through which art therapy might help
Psychosis
Qualitative Qualitative
2 Clinical interview
1 study: Ross & Keyes, 2009
Clinical interviews Dissociation
Dissociation subtype
Qualitative Qualitative
3 SCS-R
(Scheier & Carver, 1985)
1 study:
Perona-Garcelan et al., 2008
22 items
3 subscales:
Self-focussed attention items (9)
Public self-consciousness items (7)
Social anxiety items (6)
Response: 4-choice answer (completely agree to completely disagree)
Self-consciousness (self-focussed attention) as a trait or disposition Internal consistency α= 0.92, 0.75, and 0.81 for each of the subscales, respectively Not reported
4 MCQ-30
(Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004)
1 study:
Perona-Garcelan et al., 2012
30 items questionnaire
Five factors:
‘Loss of cognitive confidence’
‘Positive beliefs about worry’
‘Cognitive self-consciousness’
‘Negative beliefs about uncontrollability and danger’
‘Need to control thoughts’
Response: a scale of 1 (do not agree) to 4 (completely agree)
A range of metacognitive domains which are important in conceptualising psychopathological processes Reliability for each of the 5 factors:
‘Cognitive confidence’ α = 0.85
‘Positive beliefs’ α = 0.84
‘Cognitive self-consciousness’ α = 0.75
‘Uncontrollability and danger’ α = 0.79
‘Need to control thoughts’ α = 0.78
“The construct and convergent validity are supported by empirical studies”
5 MAS-A (Lysaker et al., 2005)
1 study:
Lysaker et al., 2020
A rating scale -not described in the paper Metacognition as it is apparent within personal narratives
Metacognitive acts
Metacognitive knowledge
Not reported Not reported
6 Computer based visual and auditory tasks
1 study:
Wright et al., 2020
Task: to make 2 forced-choice binary judgements of
1.a) whether a stimulus was present or not within a noisy picture or presentation of white noise;
2.b) whether confidence in this decision was high or low;
2) to discriminate between correct and incorrect judgements
Metacognition efficiency
Metacognitive sensitivity
Metacognitive experience
7 CIS (Beck et al., 2004)
1 study:
Wright et al., 2020
9 items
Self-reflective subscale of the cognitive insight scale
Metacognitive monitoring Internal consistency
α =0.68;
test-retest reliability
r= 0.90
Convergent validity
r = -0.67
8 MAI (Semerari et al., 2012)
1 study:
Wright et al., 2020
Requires the participant to reflect on a recent difficult interpersonal experience and answer a series of questions Metacognitive ability Internal consistency
α =0.90;
reliability
r= 0.62 to 0.90
Good factorial validity
9 TUS
(Short, 2006)
1 study:
Wright et al., 2020
Structured interview
Questions re the number of hours spent engaged in specific structured activities for the preceding month
Functional outcome Inter-rater reliability 0.99 Good validity as TUS is comparable to studies using functioning measures
10 The UCSD Performance-based Skills Assessment
(Patterson et al., 2001)
1 study:
Wright et al., 2020
Total score for real-life performance skill based on role-play tasks.
0-20 scale
5 Sections:
Finance
Communication
Planning
Transport
Household
Functional capacity Internal consistency
α =0.88;
test-retest reliability
r= 0.91
Validity
r= 0.86
11 QPR
(Neil et al., 2009)
1 study:
Wright et al., 2020
22 items
Self -reported questionnaire
2 subscales:
Interpersonal subscale;
Intrapersonal subscale
Response: a scale from 0 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree)
Individual’s subjective recovery; hope, empowerment; confidence, connectedness with others, reliance Internal consistency
α =0.94 (intrapersonal subscale) and 0.77 (interpersonal subscale);
Reliability
Intra, r= 0.87;
Inter, r= 0.77
Construct validity
Intra, r= -0.83; inter, r= 0.52
12 WASI
(Wechsler, 1999)
1 study:
Wright et al., 2020
2 IQ tasks (verbal IQ and performance IQ) were used from the WASI IQ (measure of neurocognition) Not reported Not reported
13 MAAS
(Brown & Ryan, 2003)
1 study:
Ubeda-Gomez et al., 2015
15 items
Self-reported scale
Response: Likert scale of 1-6
The dispositional capacity of awareness or attention to the experience of the present moment in daily life Cronbach’s alpha = 0.89 Not reported
14 BDI-II
(Beck, Steer & Brown, 1996)
2 studies:
Perivoliotis et al., 2009;
Farrelly et al., 2016
21 item- scale
Self-report
Response: 4-point Likert scale (0- symptom not present, to 3- present with significant distress)
Symptoms of depression Not reported Validated in patients with schizophrenia
15 BAI
(Beck & Steer, 1974)
2 studies:
Perivoliotis et al., 2009;
Farrelly et al., 2016
21 item- scale
Self-report
Response: 4-point Likert scale (0- symptom not present, to 3- present with significant distress)
Symptoms of anxiety Not reported Validated in patients with schizophrenia
16 SCLF
(Strauss & Carpenter, 1974)
1 study:
Perivoliotis et al., 2009
9 item- questionnaire
Interviewer-scored
Not described
Levels of social and occupational functioning Not reported One of the most commonly used validated questionnaires of functioning
17 QoL Inventory
(Frisch, 1994)
1 study:
Perivoliotis et al., 2009
32-item
Self-report
Measures subjective functioning on 16 life domains
Satisfaction with life Not reported Not reported
18 BCIS
(Beck et al., 2004)
1 study:
Perivoliotis et al., 2009
15 items
Self-report
2 dimensions of cognitive insight:
Self-reflectiveness and self-certainty
Cognitive insight- the ability to question one’s beliefs, consider alternative explanations for one’s experiences and accept that beliefs are fallible. Not reported Validated
19 PDS
(Foa et al., 1997)
1 study:
Farrelly et al., 2016
49 items
Total score ranging from 0 to 51
Response scale not described
A checklist of potentially traumatising events and an indication of the distress, intrusive thoughts, avoidance and hyperarousal in the last month Not reported Not reported
20 SCID-D
(Steinberg, 1994)
1 study:
Farrelly et al., 2016
Structured clinical interview for DSM-IV dissociative disorders
9 items
Depersonalisation symptoms Not reported Not reported
21 IPA
(Smith, Flowers, & Larkin, 2009)
1 study:
Bacon & Kenedy, 2014
Telephone interviews Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of semi-structured telephone interviews - detailed scrutiny of interview transcripts, development of conceptual themes, and repeating this with each set of interview data before superordinate and
subordinate themes accommodating all experiences were produced.
Qualitative Qualitative
22 HGSHS: A
(Shor & Orne, 1962)
1 study:
Humpston et al., 2016
Short hypnotic induction session followed by a series of 12 suggestions and a de-induction procedure
3 psychometric factors: ideomotor; challenge, cognitive
Compartmentalisation- type dissociative experiences through suggestion Cronbach’s alpha 0.79 Well-validated