Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 53-61 , January 2008

Evaluating Differential Item Functioning of the PRIME-MD Mood Module Among Impoverished Black and White Women in Primary Care

  • Kimberly A. Hepner, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
    • Kimberly A. Hepner, PhD, is an Associate Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. She is a clinical psychologist whose current research focuses on quality of care for depression in both primary care and mental health specialty settings, with an emphasis on improving measurement of both processes and outcomes of depression care.
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Kimberly A. Hepner, PhD, RAND Corporation, 1776 Main Street, PO Box 2138, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138; Phone: 310-393-0411; fax: 310-393-4818.
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  • Leo S. Morales, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, California
    • Leo S. Morales, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and an affiliated researcher at RAND. He is co-Director of the UCLA Resource Center for Minority Aging Research. His research interests include minority health, disparities in health care and psychometrics.
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  • Ron D. Hays, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, Los Angeles, California
    • Ron D. Hays, PhD, is Professor of Medicine in the Department of Health Services and the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research in the Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine. He is also a Senior Health Scientist at RAND. His research interests include the development of research instruments to assess patient evaluations of health care, health-related quality of life, and other health outcomes.
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  • Maria Orlando Edelen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California
    • Maria Orlando Edelen, PhD, is now an Assistant Professor (research) and Director of Quantitative Sciences at Brown University Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in Providence, RI. She is a psychometrician with current interests in measurement of mental health and substance use.
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  • Jeanne Miranda, PhD

      Affiliations

    • UCLA/NPI Health Services Research Center, Los Angeles, California
    • Jeanne Miranda, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at UCLA. She is a clinical psychologist who has focused her work on providing mental health care to low-income and minority communities.

Received 8 February 2007 ,Accepted 2 October 2007.

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 Supported by the UCLA/DREW Project EXPORT, National Institutes of Health, National Center on Minority Health & Health Disparities, (P20-MD00148-01). Supported in part by UCLA Center for Health Improvement in Minority Elders/Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Aging (AG-02-004; to R.D.H. and L.M.).

PII: S1049-3867(07)00147-8

doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2007.10.001

Women's Health Issues
Volume 18, Issue 1 , Pages 53-61 , January 2008

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