Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI): A New Instrument for Epidemiological Studies and Pre-Clinical Evaluation

Abstract

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Predictive validity for the clinical diagnosis of a new parent questionnaire, the CABI, compared with CBCL

“…The CABI has the additional advantage of allowing the exploration of problems affecting areas not explored by the CBCL, such as OCD (items 12–15) and psychogenic eating disorders (anorexia items 65–67, bulimia item 64), item 11 phobias, insecurity 16–17, post-traumatic stress disorder 18, irritability 29–32, evaluation of reality 52–55, social relations 56–61, sphincter control 62–63, aspects related to sex 68–69, substance abuse 70–72, academic performance 73–74, and bullying 75 (Cianchetti et al, 2013). Therefore, the CABI covers an almost complete spectrum of behavioral problems, an understandable difference compared to the CBCL, a valiant pioneer of this type of instrument, built 20 years before CABI, when the nosography was still led by DSM -III-R. A modification of some items of the CABI is, however, opportune, particularly for the oppositional defiant and conduct problems.…”

“…The CABI vs CBCL comparison occurred for groups of items belonging to the different subscales/scales, suggestive of the different diagnoses, as follows; the numbers of the items indicated below are as reported in the articles by Achenbach et al (2003) and Cianchetti et al (2013).…”

“…CABI. The complete CABI questionnaire and the illustration of its characteristics are reported with open access in Cianchetti et al (2013).…”

“…The tool, called Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI), was initially standardized and made accessible for free use in 2013 (Cianchetti et al, 2013), and its larger standardization was published in 2017 (Cianchetti et al, 2017). The CABI, better described below, consists of 75 items, grouped in relation to the problem areas (“subscales”) they explore; this allows an easy and at-glance evaluation of the problems that are reported by parents and of the entity of them, without having to use a manual counting grid or a computer transcription, as required by CBCL.…”

Translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Short Screening Instrument for Psychological Problems in Enuresis for use in Brazil (SSIPPE-Br)

“…To use a screening tool, it is important to have a cross-cultural validation process for the population to be applied that follows internationally accepted standards, that is, the items must not only be translated appropriately from a linguistic point of view but also culturally adapted, maintaining the validity of the original 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 In this context, the objective of this study was to carry out the process of translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the SSIPPE 16 for Brazilian children and adolescents with enuresis. 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 The Child and Adolescent Behavior Inventory (CABI) 23 , 24 validated for Brazilian Portuguese 25 was used for this validation process.…”