Mi-Data

Full name of scale

MiData

Languages

English

Rater

Clinician-rated

The database can be used by clinicians, managers, health service researchers, and commissioners

Training

Training is required before the package can be used and is provided on an individual team basis. The rest of the session consists of intensive training in conducting and scoring the measures, and use of the electronic database. Each clinician is provided with a handbook outlining the measures and guidelines regarding administration.

Utility

It is used for audit and research purposes

It is a computerized assessment package used to evaluate first episode psychosis services (EIS).

It includes several measures that are rated differently.

Time to complete

The assessments at each time point take approximately 30 min to input into the database.

Cost/license

No information found

Other information

The database can generate reports such as the calculation of scale totals, summaries of individual client measures, progress reports and graphs showing client progress over follow-up times, and summary statistics

Fisher, H., Theodore, K., Power, P., Chisholm, B., Fuller, J., Marlowe, K., … Sacks, M. (2008). Routine evaluation in first episode psychosis services: Feasibility and results from the MiData project. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 43(12), 960–967. Follow this link for the article.

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