Adolescence is a period of change and increased mental health difficulties, which are important for lifetime outcomes. Adolescent mental health is therefore an active research area, with large samples often drawing on self-report general measures (ie, not disorder-specific or focused on a narrow outcome). We argue that these measures have a key role in our understanding of issues such as prevalence, antecedents, prevention, and intervention, however, measurement has been given little attention and high-quality measures do not tend to be available or used. We offer insights into historical and psychometric challenges that have contributed to current problems and highlight the implications of relying on poor measures, which at their worst can be biased and unethical. We make recommendations for research and practice on selecting measures and improving the evidence base and make a call to action to reject low-quality measurement in this field.

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估计普通人群的青少年心理健康：当前的挑战和机遇


青春期是一个变化和心理健康困难增加的时期，这对终生结果很重要。因此，青少年心理健康是一个活跃的研究领域，大样本通常采用自我报告的一般措施（即，不针对特定疾病或专注于狭隘的结局）。我们认为，这些措施在我们理解患病率、前因、预防和干预等问题方面起着关键作用，但是，测量很少受到重视，高质量的措施往往不可用或使用。我们提供了对导致当前问题的历史和心理测量挑战的见解，并强调了依赖不良措施的影响，在最坏的情况下，这些措施可能是有偏见和不道德的。我们就选择措施和改进证据基础的研究和实践提出建议，并呼吁采取行动拒绝该领域的低质量测量。