Effective Mental Health Screening in Adolescents: Should We Collect Data from Youth, Parents or Both?
2017 | journal article; research paper. A publication with affiliation to the University of Göttingen.
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Effective Mental Health Screening in Adolescents: Should We Collect Data from Youth, Parents or Both?
Kuhn, C.; Aebi, M.; Jakobsen, H.; Banaschewski, T. ; Poustka, L. ; Grimmer, Y. & Goodman, R. et al. (2017)
Child psychiatry and human development, 48(3). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-016-0665-0
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- Kuhn, Christine; Aebi, Marcel; Jakobsen, Helle; Banaschewski, Tobias ; Poustka, Luise ; Grimmer, Yvonne; Goodman, Robert; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph
- Abstract
- 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.
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Journal
- Child psychiatry and human development
- ISSN
- 1573-3327