title: Assessment in health psychology: Introduction to the special issue.
abstract: For the past 27 years,Psychological Assessmenthas been committed to publishing empirical research relevant to clinical assessment of basic and applied cognition, personality, interpersonal behavior, psychopathology, forensics, and biological psychology. There is growing interest in the use of patient-centered outcomes in medical/surgical care and for measuring health care performance. Patient-centered outcome measures complement traditional clinical outcomes of morbidity and mortality, capturing the patient’s perspective regarding their health and its treatment. In this issue, we highlight 11 articles that address different aspects of such work. The articles in this special issue represent both the depth and breadth of the opportunities that exist for psychological assessment in the health setting. While there are countless patient-centered measures currently in use to measure health and health outcomes, the evidence base for their use can be quite variable (Butt, 2016). The hope is that future issues ofPsychological Assessmentwill highlight more work in this area.
authors.affiliation: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
authors.forename: Zeeshan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Butt
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D063868:Patient Outcome Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics; D057566:Self Report