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Psychiatr Prax 2011; 38(4): 178-184
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1265979
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„Scale to Assess Therapeutic Relationships, STAR”: Evaluation der deutschen Skalenversion zur Beurteilung der therapeutischen Beziehung

Evaluation of the German Version of the STAR ScaleStefanie  Kristiane  Gairing1 , 2 * Matthias  Jäger1 * Daniel  Ketteler1 , Wulf  Rössler1 , Anastasia  Theodoridou1 * S. Gairing und M. Jäger haben in gleichem Ausmaß zu dieser Arbeit beigetragen
  • 1Klinik für Soziale Psychiatrie und Allgemeinpsychiatrie, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
  • 2Forensisch Psychiatrischer Dienst, Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich
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05 May 2011 (online)

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Anliegen Ziel war die Evaluation einer deutschsprachigen Version der STAR-Skala zur Erfassung der therapeutischen Beziehung im psychiatrischen Setting. Methode Es wurde eine Übersetzung der Skala erstellt und bei 100 Patienten und deren Behandlern angewandt. Die Daten wurden im Hinblick auf die psychometrischen Eigenschaften ausgewertet. Ergebnisse Wir fanden eine zufriedenstellende Reliabilität der Gesamtskalen. Die Subskalen waren bei der Hauptkomponentenanalyse jedoch nicht extrahierbar und wiesen hohe Interkorrelationen auf. Schlussfolgerungen Wir beurteilen die psychometrischen Eigenschaften der Gesamtskalen des STAR als zufriedenstellend.

Abstract

Objective The assessment of the therapeutic relationship has become increasingly important due to evidence suggesting that it has a direct therapeutic effect and may improve outcome indirectly. In Great Britain and Sweden the STAR (Scale To Assess Therapeutic Relationship) was developed for pantheoretical assessment of therapeutic relationships from both clinicians' and patients' points of view. We translated the English version of the instrument into German and made an analysis of its feasibility and reliability. Methods The German translation (STAR-D) was generated in a consensus procedure. The STAR-D was then administered to 100 patients admitted to the Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich (STAR-P) and their clinicians in charge (STAR-C). The psychometric qualities of feasibility and reliability were assessed. Results The overall results for the scales in terms of feasibility and reliability were satisfactory. We did, however, find shortcomings concerning the subscales. They could not be extracted in the principal component analysis and showed high inter-correlation coefficients. Conclusions STAR can serve as an important tool in research concerning the therapeutic relationship. We suggest conducting further analyses concerning the validity of the subscales in the German version.

Schlüsselwörter

therapeutische Beziehung - Reliabilität - psychometrische Evaluation - theorieübergreifende Instrumente

Keywords

therapeutic relationship - reliability - psychometric properties - pantheoretical assessment

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Dr. med. Anastasia Theodoridou

Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik

Lenggstraße 31

8032 Zürich, Schweiz

Email: anastasia.theodoridou@puk.zh.ch

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