Knowledge of Problem Solving (KOPS) Scale: Design and Evaluation of a Digitally Administered Competence Measure for a Common Practice Element in Task-Shared Youth Mental Health Interventions

• DOI: 10.1007/s41347-023-00356-9
• Publication Date: 2023-10-21T12:02:16Z
• Authors: Sonal Mathur; Daniel Michelson; Tejaswi Shetty; Vikram Patel; Andy P. Field
• Keywords: Medical education; Competence (human resources); Social Psychology; Scale (ratio); 150; 370; Clinical psychology; Social Sciences; Applied psychology; Social psychology; Quantum mechanics; Article; Systems engineering; Task (project management); Intervention (counseling); Engineering; Psychological intervention; Psychology; Applied Psychology; Psychiatry; Physics; Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents; Internet-based Interventions; Impact of Stigma on Mental Health Care; 3. Good health; FOS: Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Medicine; Mental health; Digital Mental Health Interventions and Efficacy

There are few reliable and feasible quality assurance methods to support scaling up of psychological interventions delivered by non-specialist providers. This paper reports on the phased development validation a digitally administered Knowledge Problem Solving (KOPS) measure assess competencies associated with "task-shared" problem-solving intervention for adolescents diverse mental health problems in India. Phase 1 established key required deliver intervention, followed item generation corresponding knowledge-based competency that could be efficiently through e-learning systems. In phase 2, items were refined based responses from an "experienced" reference sample comprising 17 existing counsellors direct experience "novice" 14 untrained university students NGO staff. 3, we evaluated two parallel versions (