Journal
CHILD PSYCHIATRY & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 385-392Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-016-0665-0
Keywords
Adolescent psychopathology; Screening; Multi-informants; SDQ; DAWBA
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- Lilly
- Medice
- Novartis
- Shire
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Youth- and parent-rated screening measures derived from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) were compared on their psychometric properties as predictors of caseness in adolescence (mean age 14). Successful screening was judged firstly against the likelihood of having an ICD-10 psychiatric diagnosis and secondly by the ability to discriminate between community (N = 252) and clinical (N = 86) samples (sample status). Both, SDQ and DAWBA measures adequately predicted the presence of an ICD-10 disorder as well as sample status. The hypothesis that there was an informant gradient was confirmed: youth self-reports were less discriminating than parent reports, whereas combined parent and youth reports were more discriminating-a finding replicated across a diversity of measures. When practical constraints only permit screening for caseness using either a parent or an adolescent informant, parents are the better source of information.
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