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Adequacy of Interviews vs Checklists for Classifying Childhood Psychiatric Disorder Based on Parent Reports

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The advantages and disadvantages of lay-administered structured interviews and self-administered problem checklists for estimating prevalence and associated features of childhood psychiatric disorder have attracted little comment. This article compares the scientific adequacy of these 2 instruments for classifying DSM-III-R categories of childhood psychiatric disorder in general population samples. METHODS: Study data are from …

Authors

Boyle MH; Offord DR; Racine YA; Szatmari P; Sanford M; Fleming JE

Journal

JAMA Psychiatry, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 793–799

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Publication Date

September 1, 1997

DOI

10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830210029003

ISSN

2168-622X