Journal
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
Volume 1, Issue 6, Pages 427-435Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1006/ebeh.2000.0119
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children; epilepsy; mother; father; teacher; cross-informant; behavior ratings
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- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke [PHS R01 NS22416]
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The purpose of this study was to determine the degree of informant agreement for behavioral ratings of children with epilepsy. Informants completed Achenbach's 1991 scales: parents completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), teachers completed the Teacher's Report Form (TRF), and youth completed the Youth Self-Report Form of the CBCL (YSR). Analyses included degree of concordance of ratings as a function of informant, child gender, and condition severity (active vs inactive epilepsy). Results indicated that across all four types of raters (mothers, fathers, teachers, and adolescents) there was a similar pattern. Mothers' ratings tended to be the highest and youths' ratings tended to be the lowest across scales. In general, agreement among adult raters was greater than between youth and adults. Mothers and teachers reported more internalizing symptoms than did youth; mother, father, and teacher ratings on externalizing symptoms were not significantly different from each other. There were no significant effects of gender and condition severity on concordance among ratings although there were some interesting trends. (C) 2000 Academic Press
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