J Korean Neuropsychiatr Assoc.  2014 Jan;53(1):32-39. 10.4306/jknpa.2014.53.1.32.

Developing the Indicator of Human Rights of People with Mental Illness: Focusing on People with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder at National Hospital

• Hong CH
• Jung SM
• Sea YH
• Yoon BH
• Bae A

• KMID: 1964067
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.4306/jknpa.2014.53.1.32

Abstract

OBJECTIVES
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the indicator of human rights of people with mental illness (HRPM).
METHODS
The HRPM scale was administered to 382 inpatients at national hospital psychiatric (schizophrenia 77.0%, bipolar disorder 7.6%). Reliability of HRPM was tested by internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and item-total correlation. Domains and contents were examined for assessment of construct validity of HRPM.
RESULTS
Human rights of people with mental illness was highly reliable in terms of internal consistency (Cronbach alpha=0.87), test-retest reliability (r=0.81), and corrected item-total correlation r range from 0.42 to 0.71. In addition, construct validity of HRPM was established with the domains and contents in conceptually expected ways.
CONCLUSION
These results offer reliability and validity for the indicator of HRPM. The implications and limitations of this study were discussed, and future directions of study were suggested.

Keyword

Human rights; Mental illness; Indicator of human rights; Reliability; Validity

MeSH Terms

Bipolar Disorder*
Human Rights*
Humans*
Inpatients
Reproducibility of Results
Schizophrenia*

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