Title
Gap-reach: A checklist to assess comprehensive reporting of race, ethnicity, and culture in psychiatric publications
Date Issued
01 October 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Lewis-Fernández R.
Raggio G.A.
Gorritz M.
Duan N.
Marcus S.
Cabassa L.J.
Humensky J.
Becker A.E.
Oquendo M.A.
Hansen H.
Like R.C.
Weiss M.
Desai P.N.
Jacobsen F.M.
Foulks E.F.
Primm A.
Lu F.
Kopelowicz A.
Hinton L.
Hinton D.E.
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
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. © 2013 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Start page
860
End page
871
Volume
201
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sociología
Psiquiatría
Etnología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84885199941
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
ISSN of the container
00223018
Sponsor(s)
National Institute of Mental Health: R01MH077226 - NIMH
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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