Artículo aceptado para publicación en la Revista de Psicoterapia. (con autorización de la propia revista para su difusión online)

We present the Spanish version of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-Outcome Measure (CORE-OM), an instrument created by the Core System Group for the evaluation of therapeutic change. The CORE-OM is a self-report questionnaire that assesses psychological distress with domains of Subjective well-being, problems/ symptoms, general functioning and risk. We describe its psychometric properties studies which suggest a good level of validity and reliability, as well as excellent acceptability and sensitivity to therapeutic change. With the supervision and guidance of team members from the CORE-OM developers the original English version was translated into Spanish. 12 people, competent in both languages from different parts of Spain, participated in this process and later 64 Castilian-speaking from different demographic and linguistic backgrounds participated in the review of the instrument. This provided a final version in Spanish of the CORE-OM from which the resulting shorter versions (CORE-SFA, SFB-CORE, CORE and CORE-10-5, all in male and female versions) were derived. Now that the CORE-OM is available to all Spanish-speaking psychotherapists (www.ub.edu/terdep/core), it is necessary to continue the validation study with the objective of having the psychometric properties of the instrument for the Spanish version.

Este estudio forma parte del proyecto “Terapia cognitiva para la depresión unipolar: eficacia de una intervención centrada en dilemas” (ref. PSI2011-23246; véase en Internet: www.ub.edu/terdep) de la Universitat de Barcelona, financiado en parte por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad.