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Farmer, Robin M. Weinick NATIONAL DEFENSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE The RAND Online Measure Repository for Evaluating Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Programs The RAND Toolkit, Volume 2 Joie D. Acosta, Kerry A. Reynolds, Emily M. Gillen, Kevin Carter Feeney, Carrie M. Farmer, Robin M. Weinick Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Approved for public release; distribution unlimited This research was sponsored by the the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. It was conducted in the Forces and Resources Policy Center, a RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) program. NDRI is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the OSD, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community under Contract W74V8H-06-C-0002. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for this publication. ISBN: 978-0-8330-5938-3 The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND’s publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors. Support RAND—make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at www.rand.org/giving/contribute.html R® is a registered trademark. © Copyright 2014 RAND Corporation This document and trademark(s) contained herein are protected by law. This representation of RAND intellectual property is provided for noncommercial use only. Unauthorized posting of RAND documents to a non-RAND website is prohibited. RAND documents are protected under copyright law. Permission is given to duplicate this document for personal use only, as long as it is unaltered and complete. Permission is required from RAND to reproduce, or reuse in another form, any of our research documents for commercial use. For information on reprint and linking permissions, please see the RAND permissions page (www.rand.org/pubs/permissions.html). RAND OFFICES SANTA MONICA, CA • WASHINGTON, DC PITTSBURGH, PA • NEW ORLEANS, LA • JACKSON, MS • BOSTON, MA CAMBRIDGE, UK • BRUSSELS, BE www.rand.org Preface Throughout the past decade, U.S. military forces have been engaged in extended conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. While most military personnel cope well across the deployment cycle, increases in stress associated with rapid operational tempo may raise the risk for mental health challenges. During this time, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has implemented numerous programs to support service members and their families as they cope with these challenges. These programs address various components of biological, psychological, social, spiritual, and holistic influences on psychological health along the resilience, prevention, and treatment continuum and focus on a variety of clinical and nonclinical concerns. In response to this proliferation of programs, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs asked the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) to develop a set of tools to support ongoing assessment and evaluation of the DoD portfolio of programs that address psychologi- cal health and traumatic brain injury (TBI). This report describes the development and uses of one of these tools, the RAND Online Measure Repository (ROMR). The ROMR is an online searchable database containing mea- sures related to psychological health and TBI that was created to support monitoring and evaluation of such programs. This report describes the rationale, purpose, and uses of the ROMR, as well as the content of the repository itself. This report will be of particular interest to DoD officials responsible for programs related to psychological health and TBI, and should also be helpful for health policy officials within the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as well as others responsible for evaluating similar programs in nondefense-related settings. The ROMR is the second part of a toolkit that RAND is developing to support the evaluation of this DoD portfolio of programs. A link to the ROMR is available at the “Innovative Practices for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury” web page;1 other tools in this series will be made available at this site as they are prepared. This research was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury and conducted within the Forces and Resources Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Insti- tute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Sec- retary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community. For more information on the RAND Forces and Resources Policy Center, see http:// www.rand.org/nsrd/ndri/centers/frp.html or contact the director (contact information is pro- vided on the web page). 1 http://www.rand.org/multi/military/innovative-practices.html iii Contents Preface ........................................................................................................... iii Figure and Tables .............................................................................................. vii Summary ........................................................................................................ ix Acknowledgments ............................................................................................ xiii Abbreviations ................................................................................................... xv CHAPTER ONE Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 The Need for a Repository of Measures on Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury to Evaluate Military Programs ................................................................................ 2 CHAPTER TWO Development of the RAND Online Measure Repository ............................................... 5 Identifying Potential Measures ................................................................................. 6 Literature Search ............................................................................................... 7 Expert Consultation ........................................................................................... 7 Review of References .......................................................................................... 7 Selecting Measures from the Literature Search to Include in the Repository ............................. 7 Title and Abstract Review .................................................................................... 7 Full-Text Review for Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria .................................................... 8 Articles Identified During the Literature Search ........................................................... 8 Abstracting Consistent Information on Each Measure ...................................................... 9 Article Coding and Data Abstraction ....................................................................... 9 Procedure for Coding Articles ............................................................................... 11 CHAPTER THREE Characteristics of Measures Included in the RAND Online Measure Repository ................ 13 Use by Military Populations and Cost.......................................................................