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Effective Mental Health Screening in Adolescents: Should We Collect Data from Youth, Parents or Both?

Kuhn, Christine and Aebi, Marcel and Jakobsen, Helle and Banaschewski, Tobias and Poustka, Luise and Grimmer, Yvonne and Goodman, Robert and Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph. (2017) Effective Mental Health Screening in Adolescents: Should We Collect Data from Youth, Parents or Both? Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 48 (3). pp. 385-392.

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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.
Faculties and Departments:07 Faculty of Psychology
UniBasel Contributors:Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Springer Verlag
ISSN:0009-398X
e-ISSN:1573-3327
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Last Modified:20 Oct 2017 09:06
Deposited On:20 Oct 2017 09:06

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