Sentences with phrase «yields symptom scores»

All caregivers completed the 25 - item Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; Goodman, 1997)-- a commonly used child - psychiatric screener that yields symptom scores for emotional symptoms (i.e., anxiety and mood symptoms), conduct problems, hyperactivity, and peer problems.

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Each item is descriptive of subjective, somatic, or panic related symptoms of anxiety and is scored on a scale from 0 to 3, yielding total score from 0 to 63.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

Nevertheless, both caregiver and self - report of externalizing symptoms were associated with male gender and adherence, and utilizing mean scores of the two reporters yielded a good model fit.

The stability measures of ODD and CU between ages 3 and 5 yielded significant (p <.001) but moderate - low coefficients: intra-class correlation was.31 for callousness,.40 for uncaring,.03 for unemotional,.40 for total score and.42 for number of ODD symptoms.

Therefore, self - report and caregiver - report of mental health symptoms were standardized and summed to yield combined scores for anxiety and externalizing symptoms.

It consists of 90 items and yields nine scores along primary symptom dimensions and three scores that refer to global distress indexes.

For ADHD, a clinical cutoff score of five symptoms without the pervasiveness criterion yielded a sensitivity of 83 % and a specificity of 98 %; when the pervasiveness criterion was included sensitivity was 77 % and specificity 98 %.