Construct validity was tested by examining associations between the PHQ - 9 and a self - report measure of functional impairment, as well as parental reports of
child psychosocial impairment and internalizing symptoms.
Not exact matches
This can be a partial or complete functional disability and / or
psychosocial impairment that have an adverse effect on the
child's educational performance.
Children completed the Youth - Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC - Y), while their caregivers completed the Pediatric Symptom Checklist — 35 (PSC - 35) to measure
psychosocial impairment.
[jounal] Strauss, C. C. / 1987 /
Psychosocial impairment associated with anxiety in
children / Journal of Clinical
Child Psychology 16 (3): 235 ~ 239
They showed that, even with the effects of chronic stress statistically controlled, there were still differences in the
psychosocial outcome variables among groups, and there was particular
impairment in
children of unipolar mothers [30].
Postnatal depression, particularly in disadvantaged communities, has been shown to be associated with
impairments in the
child's growth, 36 and his / her social, emotional, and cognitive development.37 By school age,
children of women who suffer postnatal depression are at risk for showing externalising and internalising behavioural problems, and they have lower social skills and academic achievement.38 A key way in which maternal depression affects
children's development is by disrupting the mother - infant relationship as well as routine parenting functions, 37 and two studies have shown that HIV infection is associated with similar disturbances in mother -
child interactions.13, 39 Currently, no studies in the HIV literature have examined maternal
psychosocial functioning in relation to mother -
child interactions or
child development.
The results do not show higher average risk levels for
psychosocial adjustment problems, even though a minority of the cases is at risk for social
impairments (7.7 %), internalizing (23.1 %), externalizing (3.8 %) and total difficulties (11.5 %) and for distress in the parent —
child system (15 %).
Modelling
psychosocial influences on the distress and
impairment caused by psychotic - like experiences in
children and adolescents