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View the Bariatric Norms Interpretive Sample Report
A World of Information with One Test The MBMD assessment helps provide a broader understanding of the personal reality that each patient faces. By helping identify psychosocial assets and liabilities that may affect an individual’s response to treatment, the MBMD test enables clinicians to develop tailored treatment recommendations.
Brief yet comprehensive, the MBMD inventory helps gather a range of information that it might otherwise require a battery of instruments to obtain. Two norm groups, one that includes a comprehensive sample of patients with chronic medical conditions, and one specific to bariatric surgery candidates, this contemporary test can help increase the likelihood of positive treatment outcomes and may thereby reduce the overall costs of care.
Psychologists, physicians, nurses and other professionals use the MBMD results to help:
- Identify patients who may have significant psychiatric problems and recommend specific interventions
- Pinpoint personal and social assets that may facilitate adjustment to physical limitations or lifestyle changes
- Determine whether patients need more communication and support in order to comply with prescribed medical regimens
- Structure post-treatment plans and self-care responsibilities in the context of the patient's social network
- NEW! The MBMD’s recently added bariatric norms can help determine a candidate’s psychological suitability for surgery, assist patients in making significant lifestyle changes, and prepare medical staff to respond to patients’ likely reactions following surgery.
- The MBMD’s broad normative sample permits the test’s use to be extended into sleep disorder centers, cancer treatment centers, cardiac rehabilitation programs, bariatric surgery departments, pain treatment centers, neurological rehabilitation units, military and veterans’ hospitals, primary care facilities and family medicine clinics.
- The Interpretive Report includes a one-page, tear-off Healthcare Provider Summary written in language medical professionals can readily understand, helping to facilitate communication between the psychologist and medical staff.
- The test’s 165 items require only 20–25 minutes to complete, helping to reduce patient resistance and fatigue.
- By enabling more effective treatment planning, the MBMD test may help decrease healthcare costs in clinics and hospitals through reduced assessment time, more efficient triage and decreased complications after major procedures.
| Administer To | Individuals 18 years and older |
| Reading Level | 6th grade |
| Completion Time | Approx. 20–25 minutes (165 true/false items) |
| Formats | Paper-and-pencil, CD or computer administration |
| Report Options | Profile,
Interpretive (with Healthcare Provider Summary),
Interpretive with Bariatric Summary based on Bariatric Norms |
| Scoring Options | Q™ Local Software
Mail-in Scoring Service
Hand Scoring
Fax-in Service
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| Scales | 29 Content Scales grouped into 5 domains
3 Response Patterns
6 Negative Health Habits |
| Norm Groups | General medical norms based on 700 patients with a wide variety of medical conditions and Bariatric-specific norms based on more than 700 bariatric surgery candidates nationwide. |
Response Patterns
X - Disclosure
Y - Desirability
Z - Debasement
Negative Health Habits
Alcohol
Drugs
Eating
Caffeine
Inactivity
Smoking
Psychiatric Indicators
AA - Anxiety-Tension
BB - Depression
CC - Cognitive Dysfunction
DD - Emotional Lability
EE - Guardedness
Coping Styles
1 - Introversion
2A - Inhibited
2B - Dejected
3 - Cooperative
4 - Sociable
5 - Confident
6A - Nonconforming
6B - Forceful
7 - Respectful
8A - Oppositional
8B - Denigrated
Stress Moderators
A - Illness Apprehension
B - Functional Deficits
C - Pain Sensitivity
D - Social Isolation
E - Future Pessimism
F - Spiritual Absence
Treatment Prognostics
G - Interventional Fragility
H - Mediation Abuse
I - Information Discomfort
J - Utilization Excess
K - Problematic Compliance
Management Guide
L - Adjustment Difficulties
M - Psych Referral
Test Components - Response Patterns
Help gauge distorted response tendencies in the patient's self-report - Negative Health Habits
Help gauge recent or current problematic behaviors affecting health, such as Alcohol, Drug, Eating, Caffeine, Inactivity, and Smoking - Psychiatric Indications
Help identify psychiatric comorbidities that may affect health management such as Anxiety-Tension, Depression, Cognitive Dysfunction, Emotional Lability, and Guardedness - Coping Styles
Help identify patients' approaches to handling everyday problems, as well as their medical condition and major life stressors - Stress Moderators
Help identify attitudes and resources that may affect health care such as Illness Apprehension, Social Isolation, Future Pessimism, Pain Sensitivity and Spiritual Absence.
The MBMD test now provides a choice of two normative samples. The general medical norms include a sample of more than 700 patients with a wide variety of medical conditions, including obesity, cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, heart problems, neurological disorders, gastrointestinal complaints, gynecological problems, injuries and organ transplants. The bariatric norms are based on data collected from 711 prescreened bariatric surgery patients ages 19-68 from across the United States, including 585 females and 126 males with BMIs ranging from 31 to 84.
View a sample report based on bariatric norms.
Both internal consistency and test-retest analyses were used to estimate the reliability of the MBMD scales. Using the entire sample, the following internal consistency coefficients were obtained: Psychiatric Indications (rtt = .76 to .89); Coping Styles (rtt = .54 to .85); Stress Moderators (rtt = .85 to .89); Treatment Prognostics (rtt = .47 to .80); and Management Guide (rtt = .77 to .79). The median internal consistency coefficient for all scales is rtt = .79.
Using a smaller sample (N = 41), test-retest reliability estimates were also obtained: Psychiatric Indications (rtt = .79 to .88); Coping Styles (rtt = .71 to .90); Stress Moderators (rtt = .78 to .92); Treatment Prognostics (rtt = .72 to .88); and Management Guide (rtt = .78 to .81). The median test-retest coefficient for all scales is rtt = .83.
Several approaches were used to validate the scales included on the MBMD assessment. First, an item sorting procedure was used that required several medical professionals to place the items into the scales for which they were initially written. Only items that were sorted correctly by the majority of the raters were retained on the test for further analysis.
Second, after the MBMD scales had been refined based on internal consistency considerations, scale scores were correlated with a variety of other measures that assessed similar content domains to each of the scales. For example, the MBMD Depression scale correlated at .87 with the BDI, and .58 with the BSI Depression scale. The MBMD Spiritual Absence scale correlated at .85 with the Systems of Belief Inventory (a frequently employed measure of spiritual beliefs).
Profile Report (Product Number 51942)
Provides a graphic representation of the prevalence scores for all the content scales, plus a rating for the likelihood of a problem with the Response Patterns and Negative Health Habits.
View a sample Profile Report.
Interpretive Report With Healthcare Provider Summary
(Product Number 51941)
Provides a detailed narrative analysis of the patient’s reported strengths and weaknesses, a graphic representation of results and a convenient one-page Healthcare Provider Summary. The report also includes syntheses across scale domains, which integrate the results of the separate scales – in much the same way a clinician would integrate the results of several different tests or laboratory reports.
The Healthcare Provider Summary is a one-page report that provides healthcare professionals with a useful and concise summary of the patient's potential assets and weaknesses, and can be reviewed in a manner similar to that of medical lab reports.
View a sample Interpretive Report.
Interpretive Report With Bariatric Summary Based on Bariatric Norms
Provides a detailed narrative analysis of the patient’s reported strengths and weaknesses. One-page Bariatric Summary categorizes the patient’s information, normed on more than 700 bariatric surgical patients, and provides probabilistic judgments in areas of presurgical intervention, patient behavior, postsurgical outlook, and postsurgical care. The report also includes a graphic representation of results and a narrative syntheses across scale domains, integrating results of individual scales.
View a sample Interpretive Report based on bariatric norms.
Q™ Local Software - Enables you to score assessments, report results, and store and export data on your computer.
Mail-in Scoring Service - Specially designed answer sheets are mailed to us for processing within 24–48 hours of receipt and returned via regular mail.
Hand Scoring - Administer assessments on answer sheets and score them quickly yourself with an answer key.
Fax-in Service - Tests completed on paper-and-pencil faxed-in sheets
- Allows you to score the assessments at your site.