1. GAP-REACH
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Robert C. Like, Francis G. Lu, Edward F. Foulks, Prakash N. Desai, Anne E. Becker, Greer A. Raggio, Devon E. Hinton, Jennifer L. Humensky, Renato D. Alarcón, Leopoldo J. Cabassa, Annelle B. Primm, Mitchell G. Weiss, Frederick M. Jacobsen, Alex Kopelowicz, Maria A. Oquendo, Sue M. Marcus, W Ladson Hinton, Roberto Lewis-Fernández, Magdaliz Gorritz, Helena Hansen, and Naihua Duan
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Consensus ,Biomedical Research ,Race ,Culture ,Clinical Sciences ,Alternative medicine ,Ethnic group ,MEDLINE ,Ethnic Groups ,Sample (statistics) ,Article ,Clinical Research ,Health care ,Ethnicity ,medicine ,Humans ,Psychology ,Psychiatry ,Continental Population Groups ,business.industry ,Patient Selection ,Racial Groups ,Reproducibility of Results ,Checklist ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Inter-rater reliability ,Good Health and Well Being ,psychiatric literature ,Content analysis ,Cognitive Sciences ,Periodicals as Topic ,business - Abstract
Growing awareness of health and health care disparities highlights the importance of including information about race, ethnicity, and culture (REC) in health research. Reporting of REC factors in research publications, however, is notoriously imprecise and unsystematic. This article describes the development of a checklist to assess the comprehensiveness and the applicability of REC factor reporting in psychiatric research publications. The 16-item GAP-REACH checklist was developed through a rigorous process of expert consensus, empirical content analysis in a sample of publications (N = 1205), and interrater reliability (IRR) assessment (N = 30). The items assess each section in the conventional structure of a health research article. Data from the assessment may be considered on an item-by-item basis or as a total score ranging from 0% to 100%. The final checklist has excellent IRR (κ = 0.91). The GAP-REACH may be used by multiple research stakeholders to assess the scope of REC reporting in a research article.
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- 2013
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