Parent and Child Contributions to Diagnosis of Mental Disorder: Are Both Informants Always Necessary?

Jensen, Peter S.; Rubio‐Stipec, Maritza; Canino, Glorisa; Bird, Héctor R.; Dulcan, Mina K.; Schwab‐Stone, Mary; Lahey, Benjamin B.

doi:10.1097/00004583-199912000-00019

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“…Children younger than 11 years were not interviewed because there is evidence that their reports are not reliable (Schwab-Stone et al 1994). Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) was excluded from the child protocol due to its poor reliability in child reports (Jensen et al 1999). In the present research the following diagnoses were ascertained: ADHD, social phobia, panic disorder, separation anxiety disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, dysthimic disorder, ODD, and conduct disorder.…”

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“…Although in our previous report (Canino et al 2004) we combined parent and child reports for children aged 11-17 years, in the present study we used parental reports only when estimating prevalence. Unlike children 11-17, younger participants were not interviewed with the DISC-IV and we wanted to compare prevalence rates across age- Bravo et al 2001; Schwab-Stone et al 1994;Jensen et al 1999). Logistic regression was used to estimate both crude and adjusted odds ratios when examining the correlates and patterns of comorbidity of ADHD.…”

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ADHD Correlates, Comorbidity, and Impairment in Community and Treated Samples of Children and Adolescents

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Ramírez

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Patterns of correlates, comorbidity and impairment associated with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and youth were examined in representative samples from the community and from treatment facilities serving medically indigent youth in Puerto Rico. Information from caretakers and youths was obtained using the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, (version IV), measures of global impairment, and a battery of potential correlates. In the community (N=1,896) and the treated samples (N=763), 7.5 and 26.2% of the children, respectively, met criteria for DSM-IVADHD in the previous year. Although the prevalence rates and degree of impairment differed, the general patterns of correlates, comorbidity and impairment were similar in both populations. The exceptions were associated with conduct disorder, anxiety, impairment in the ADHD comorbid group, and age factors that appeared to be related to selection into treatment. Keywords ADHD; Correlates; Prevalence; Comorbidity; Hispanic/LatinoThe clinical research literature has consistently shown that Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) (American Psychiatric Association 1994) is a disabling disorder that affects individuals across the lifespan (Barkley et al. 1990;. However, it is not clear whether the patterns of correlates, comorbidity, and impairment of the disorder in treated samples are the same for persons identified with ADHD in probability community samples. Studying the differences in patterns is important because findings from treatment samples can be biased due to selection effects that Cohen and Cohen (1984) called, "the clinician's illusion." They argued that bias can arise because clinical studies tend to focus on persons with more chronic and severe manifestations of the disorder. Insofar as these selection effects are ignored when looking at patterns of correlates, comorbidity, and impairment, the estimates of the associations related to these patterns can be affected by statistical bias known as Berkson's bias (Angold et al. 1999;Berkson 1950). To estimate the extent of the bias, it is necessary to compare findings in treated samples and epidemiological samples, using similar study designs and measures.Treatment-referred samples are appropriate for studies that aim to generalize findings to children who receive services in clinics, and also for studies that provide initial descriptions of rare disorders when the concern is identification of potential risk factors, or when very little developmental epidemiological research has been done (Angold et al. 1999). However, when evaluating results from treated cases, researchers must keep in mind the likelihood that these cases have more symptomatology, are more impaired, and usually constitute a higher burden to caregivers than children not receiving services. Also, minority/ethnic groups and prepubertal girls may be underrepresented in clinical samples (Goodman et al. 1997). Epidemiological studies that obtain representative community samples are designed to provid...

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ADHD Correlates, Comorbidity, and Impairment in Community and Treated Samples of Children and Adolescents

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“…Research has also investigated informant disagreement with regard to specific childhood externalizing problems (aggression, hyperactivity/inattention and oppositional behavior) and revealed low to moderate levels of informant agreement as well [20,25,26,30].…”

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Agreement between youth-reported and parent-reported psychopathology in a referred sample

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Objective: The study examined parent-youth agreement regarding reports on psychopathology among adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders. Method: A total of 1,718 patients between the age of 11 and 18, as well as their parents, were assessed using the child behavior checklist (CBCL), and the youth self-report (YSR). Results: Poor to low agreement between parent- and adolescent-reported problem behavior on the internalizing scale, the total problem scale and moderate agreement concerning the externalizing scale of the CBCL and the YSR were found. Independent from the amount of psychiatric diagnoses, adolescents reported significantly less behavioral problems than their parents. Concerning externalizing problems, parent-youth disagreement was stronger for patients suffering from comorbid psychiatric disorders, than for adolescents displaying only one psychiatric disorder. Conclusion: In clinically referred children, parents are likely to emphasize the severity of the difficulties, whereas adolescents’ under-report symptoms

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“…For report of behavioural symptoms, parent report alone has been shown to be more valid that youth alone (Jensen et al, 1999). This approach may have limited the ability to disentangle the subdimensions, particularly of IR and AN, where the child may have a differing opinion as to the presence or severity of their symptoms (Angold & Costello, 1996).…”

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Longitudinal Profiles of Girls’ Irritable, Defiant and Antagonistic Oppositional Symptoms: Evidence for Group Based Differences in Symptom Severity

Boylan

Rowe

Duku

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Objective: Three subdimensions of ODD symptoms have been proposed -angry/irritable (IR), argumentative/defiant (DF) and antagonism (AN). This study tested whether longitudinal symptom trajectories could be identified by these subdimensions. Method: Group-based trajectory analysis was used to identify developmental trajectories of IR, DF and AN symptoms. Multi-group trajectory analysis was then used to identify how subdimension trajectories were linked together over time. Data were drawn from the Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS; N=2450), an urban community sample of girls between the ages of five--eight at baseline. We included five waves of annual data across ages five-13 to model trajectories.Results: Three trajectories were identified for each ODD subdimension: DF and AN were characterized by high, medium and low severity groups; IR was characterized by low, medium stable, and high increasing groups. Multi-trajectory analysis confirmed these subdimensions were best linked together based on symptom severity. We did not identify girls' trajectory groups that were characterized predominantly by a particular subdimension of ODD symptoms. Membership in more severe symptom groups was significantly associated with worse outcomes five years later. Conclusions: In childhood and early adolescence girls with high levels of ODD symptoms can be identified, and these youth are characterized by a persistently elevated profile of IR, DF and AN symptoms. Further studies in clinical samples are required to examine the ICD-10 proposal that ODD with irritability is a distinct or more severe form of ODD.

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Parent and Child Contributions to Diagnosis of Mental Disorder: Are Both Informants Always Necessary?

Cited by 517 publications

References 23 publications

ADHD Correlates, Comorbidity, and Impairment in Community and Treated Samples of Children and Adolescents

ADHD Correlates, Comorbidity, and Impairment in Community and Treated Samples of Children and Adolescents

Agreement between youth-reported and parent-reported psychopathology in a referred sample

Longitudinal Profiles of Girls’ Irritable, Defiant and Antagonistic Oppositional Symptoms: Evidence for Group Based Differences in Symptom Severity

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