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Hispanic Stress Inventory-Adolescent Version Study
- Small Business Information
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Woman-Owned: NoMinority-Owned: YesHUBZone-Owned: No
- Phase 1
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Fiscal Year: 2005Title: Hispanic Stress Inventory-Adolescent Version StudyAgency: HHSContract: 1R43MH073180-01A1Award Amount: $100,000.00
Abstract:
DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of the proposed research is to develop an innovative stress assessment tool for Hispanic adolescents. A SBIR Phase I study will determine the feasibility of a Phase II study to further validate and norm 2 commercial adolescent versions of the Hispanic Stress Inventory (H.S.I.): The immigrant and non-immigrant versions (HSI-A-I/NI). The specific aims of this study of Hispanic early and late adolescents are to: 1) identify the salient conceptual psychosocial stress domains; 2) specify discrete domain-specific stressor events and their appraisal for clinical and non-clinical samples that include immigrant, language and ethnic origin subgroups; 3) generate a pool of closed-ended stressor and appraisal items formatted in a Likert style to be included in the HSI-A draft tool; 4) evaluate the content validity of the HSI-A for each adolescent conceptual stress domain. A cross-sectional, multi-stage research design with multisite, multimethod and multimeasure features will be applied. Stage 1 will telephone interview an expert panel to identify the conceptual and relevant stress domains. Stage 2 will use focus group interview methods. A stratified sample of middle and high school students and clinical clients will be selected (N=250) to participate in focus groups (N=30) from the research sites of Trenton, NJ and San Fernando, CA. Stage 3 will conduct qualitative analysis of the telephone data to generate a logically interconnected pool of items. In Stage 4 the content validity will be evaluated using Cohen's Kappa statistic of inter-rater agreement and an item analysis. The feasibility of the Phase II study will be determined by multiple criteria that include: obtaining targeted number of participants; adequate representation from the sub-groups of ethnic populations and consensus among expert panel on HSI item content as evidenced by a Cohen's Kappa of 0.70 or higher. Ultimately, the HSI-A will be advertised and supplied to the mental health care field where it will have relevance as an early warning mental health screening tool to improve diagnostic formulation.Small Business Information at Submission:Behavioral Assessment, Inc.
Behavioral Assessment, Inc. 291 S Lacienega Blvd, Ste 308 Beverly Hills, CA 90211EIN/Tax ID: 954468364DUNS: N/ANumber of Employees: N/AWoman-Owned: NoMinority-Owned: NoHUBZone-Owned: No
Award Information
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Agency: Department of Health and Human Services |
Branch: N/A |
Award ID: 76351 |
Program Year/Program: 2005 / SBIR |
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Agency Tracking Number: MH073180 |
Solicitation Year: N/A |
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A |
Solicitation Number: N/A |