Many instruments have been developed to examine and quantify symptoms of psychopathology. The main objective of this systematic review was to examine the instrument choice employed to measure mental ill‐health in professionals working in the veterinary industry and reporting of psychometric testing of these instruments by researchers. 78 papers were reviewed. A total of 73 different instruments used to measure 19 symptoms of mental ill‐health were identified. Quality assessment of included papers indicated 9 were low, 63 were moderate, and 6 were high quality. Reliability testing was conducted and reported in 36 papers and validity testing was reported in 23 papers. There is considerable heterogeneity in instrument choice measuring symptoms of mental ill‐health in this population and inconsistency in conducting and reporting psychometric testing of instruments across studies. Adopting commonly employed instruments that yield high quality data in psychometric testing of instruments would be beneficial at advancing understanding in this field.

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衡量兽医行业的精神疾病：系统评价

已经开发出许多工具来检查和量化精神病理学症状。本系统评价的主要目的是检查用于测量兽医行业专业人员心理健康状况的仪器选择，以及研究人员对这些仪器的心理测量测试报告。审阅论文78篇。总共确定了 73 种不同的工具来测量 19 种精神疾病的症状。纳入论文质量评估显示，9篇为低质量，63篇为中等质量，6篇为高质量。进行了可靠性测试并在 36 篇论文中进行了报告，在 23 篇论文中报告了有效性测试。在测量该人群精神疾病症状的仪器选择上存在相当大的异质性，并且在不同研究中进行和报告仪器的心理测量测试也不一致。采用在心理测量测试中产生高质量数据的常用仪器将有助于增进对该领域的理解。