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Mental Health Instruments Library
Platform Comittee: Josep Maria Haro (coordinator), Ana González-Pinto, Eduard Vieta,
José Luis Ayuso, Julio Bobes y Celso Arango
The Platform of the Instruments Bank provides information and service for researchers on questionnaires and instruments for assessment in mental health. The Bank currently has 320 instruments in different fields of interest.
Some of the activities carried out in 2016 are:
• Dissemination:
After completion of the cooperation agreement established with pharmaceutical company Otsuka
in 2015, the instruments bank currently receives no financing whatsoever. In 2016 several contacts were started with the pharmaceutical industry and other companies and institutions in order to go on fostering the development and dissemination of this platform.
• Methodological advice:
External and also CIBER network researchers interested in designing studies, validating instruments, using questionnaires or analysing derived data have requested this service. In all, 19 enquiries were dealt with in 2016.
• Instrument repository:
Incorporation of 22 new instruments and updating of 100 of the datasheets previously included.
• Ongoing updating of the web page:
Incorporation of information on statistics about its activity on the web page: visits counter, origin, average time the session lasts, etc. Since early 2016, the web page has had 6606 visits from 4353 users in Spain, Mexico, the United States, Russia, United Kingdom and several Latin-American countries, amongst others.
The different sections of the web page were updated, including publications stemming from projects financed in the different calls for projects from the Instruments Bank, checks made on instruments, updating of search filters, ongoing updating of news items, amongst others.
• Holding the VII Workshop formativo del Banco de Instrumentos (14-15 June 2016):
These sessions focussed on learning techniques for developing and validating instruments, as well
as on training and application of scales of mental health in the clinical domain. They also provided
a chance to swap and pool the developments and initiatives of other researchers from the network and their groups about procedures for validating instruments. At this event the contributions made by projects financed by the Instruments Bank should be stressed.
• Projects completed and scientific work stemming from the VI Convocatoria intramural de ayudas para proyectos de investigación:
Half of the projects financed in the last call successfully completed their validation study. The five remaining ones are developing or extending their work until June 2017.
Up to now, 68 publications have resulted from the successive calls. In 2016 4 scientific articles were published and 4 pieces of work were presented at Congresses and Workshops as a result of the projects financed by the Instruments Bank.
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