TY - JOUR
T1 - Rasch Analysis of the Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool (BAST) in Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury
AU - Juengst, Shannon
AU - Grattan, Emily
AU - Wright, Brittany
AU - Terhorst, Lauren
N1 - Funding Information:
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH/NICHD). Grant No: R03HD09445 (PI: Juengst). Funding for RedCap to support data collection came from CTSA NIH Grant UL1TR001105.
Funding Information:
This work was funded by the National Institutes for Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature India Private Limited.
PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - The Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool (BAST) measures neurobehavioral symptoms in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Exploratory Factor Analyses established five subscales: Negative Affect, Fatigue, Executive Function, Impulsivity, and Substance Abuse. In the current study, we assessed all the subscales except Substance Abuse using Rasch analysis following the Rasch Reporting Guidelines in Rehabilitation Research (RULER) framework. RULER identifies unidimensionality and fit statistics, item hierarchies, targeting, and symptom severity strata as areas of interest for Rasch analysis. The BAST displayed good unidimensionality with only one item from the Impulsivity scale exhibiting potential item misfit (MnSQ 1.40). However, removing this item resulted in a lower average domain measure (1.42 to − 1.49) and higher standard error (0.34 to 0.43) so the item was retained. Items for each of the four subscales also ranged in difficulty (i.e. endorsement of symptom frequency) with more severe symptoms being endorsed in the Fatigue subscale and more mild symptoms being endorsed in the Impulsivity subscale. Though Negative Affect and Executive Function displayed appropriate targeting, the Fatigue and Impulsivity Subscales had larger average domain values (1.35 and − 1.42) meaning that more items may need to be added to these subscales to capture differences across a wider range of symptom severity. The BAST displayed excellent reliability via item and person separation indices and distinct strata for each of the four subscales. Future work should use Rasch analysis in a larger, more representative sample, include more items for the Fatigue and Impulsivity subscale, and include the Substance Abuse subscale.
AB - The Behavioral Assessment Screening Tool (BAST) measures neurobehavioral symptoms in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Exploratory Factor Analyses established five subscales: Negative Affect, Fatigue, Executive Function, Impulsivity, and Substance Abuse. In the current study, we assessed all the subscales except Substance Abuse using Rasch analysis following the Rasch Reporting Guidelines in Rehabilitation Research (RULER) framework. RULER identifies unidimensionality and fit statistics, item hierarchies, targeting, and symptom severity strata as areas of interest for Rasch analysis. The BAST displayed good unidimensionality with only one item from the Impulsivity scale exhibiting potential item misfit (MnSQ 1.40). However, removing this item resulted in a lower average domain measure (1.42 to − 1.49) and higher standard error (0.34 to 0.43) so the item was retained. Items for each of the four subscales also ranged in difficulty (i.e. endorsement of symptom frequency) with more severe symptoms being endorsed in the Fatigue subscale and more mild symptoms being endorsed in the Impulsivity subscale. Though Negative Affect and Executive Function displayed appropriate targeting, the Fatigue and Impulsivity Subscales had larger average domain values (1.35 and − 1.42) meaning that more items may need to be added to these subscales to capture differences across a wider range of symptom severity. The BAST displayed excellent reliability via item and person separation indices and distinct strata for each of the four subscales. Future work should use Rasch analysis in a larger, more representative sample, include more items for the Fatigue and Impulsivity subscale, and include the Substance Abuse subscale.
KW - Behavior
KW - Emotions
KW - Measurement
KW - Psychometrics
KW - Traumatic brain injury
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U2 - 10.1007/s40737-021-00218-8
DO - 10.1007/s40737-021-00218-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 34926129
AN - SCOPUS:85105499121
SN - 2198-9834
VL - 8
SP - 231
EP - 246
JO - Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health
JF - Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health
IS - 3
ER -