The Preschool Feelings Checklist: A Brief and Sensitive Screening Measure for Depression in Young Children

Luby, Joan L.; Heffelfinger, Amy; Koenig-McNaught, Amy L.; Brown, Kathy; Spitznagel, Edward L.

doi:10.1097/01.chi.0000121066.29744.08

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“…Data used for the current study came from the first two waves (1-year interval) of a longitudinal study examining the nosology of preschool depression. Caregivers of preschool children were recruited from pediatricians' offices, daycares, and early childhood centers in the St. Louis metropolitan area using the Preschool Feelings Checklist (PFC; Luby, Heffelfinger, Mrakotsky, & Hildebrand, 1999), which is a brief validated screening tool for early-onset emotional disorders (Luby, Heffelfinger, Koenig-McNaught, Brown, & Spitznagel, 2004). Parents who endorsed two or more "internalizing" and/or two or more "externalizing" items on the checklist as well as parents who endorsed no symptoms were contacted by a trained research assistant via the phone to establish whether inclusion and exclusion criteria for study participation were met.…”

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Depressed and healthy preschoolers' internal representations of their mothers' caregiving: Associations with observed caregiving behaviors one year later

Belden¹,

Sullivan²,

Luby³

2007

Attachment & Human Development

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This study examined diagnostic group differences in children's internal representations of their mothers and mothers' parenting strategies 1 year later. Mother -preschool child dyads (N = 279) were examined. The sample included 151 healthy, 75 depressed, and 53 disruptive disordered preschoolers. The MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) was administered at baseline. One year later, mothers' caregiving strategies were measured. Results indicated that higher depression severity was associated with preschoolers' greater use of negative and disciplinarian maternal representations. More positive maternal representations had supportive mothers who often expressed positive affect 1 year later. Preschoolers' negative and disciplinarian representations were associated with mothers' later nonsupportive behaviors and negative affect. Results suggest that the MSSB may be a useful child-informant method for interpreting depressed children's internalization of caregiving relationships.

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Depressed and healthy preschoolers' internal representations of their mothers' caregiving: Associations with observed caregiving behaviors one year later

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Luby³

2007

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“…For the PDS, 3-5-year-old children and their primary caregivers were recruited from daycares, preschools, and primary care sites in the St Louis area (see Luby et al (2009) for details), using the Preschool Feelings Checklist (Luby et al, 2004) to oversample for children with or at risk for depression. Following an initial session during which psychopathology assessments, behavioral testing, and saliva collection occurred, children underwent annual clinical assessments and completed a neuroimaging session between the ages of 7 and 12 (current subsample mean age ¼ 10.38 years, SD ¼ 1.17 years).…”

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Stress-System Genes and Life Stress Predict Cortisol Levels and Amygdala and Hippocampal Volumes in Children

Pagliaccio

Luby

Bogdan

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Neuropsychopharmacol

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Depression has been linked to increased cortisol reactivity and differences in limbic brain volumes, yet the mechanisms underlying these alterations are unclear. One main hypothesis is that stress causes these effects. This is supported by animal studies showing that chronic stress or glucocorticoid administration can lead to alterations in hippocampal and amygdala structures. Relatedly, life stress is cited as one of the major risk factors for depression and candidate gene studies have related variation in stress-system genes to increased prevalence and severity of depression. The present study tested the hypothesis that genetic profile scores combining variance across 10 single nucleotide polymorphisms from four stress-system genes (CRHR1, NR3C2, NR3C1, and FKBP5) and early life stress would predict increases in cortisol levels during laboratory stressors in 120 preschool-age children (3-5 years old), as well as hippocampal and amygdala volumes assessed with MRI in these same children at school age (7-12 years old). We found that stress-system genetic profile scores positively predicted cortisol levels while the number of stressful/traumatic life events experienced by 3-5 years old negatively predicted cortisol levels. The interaction of genetic profile scores and early life stress predicted left hippocampal and left amygdala volumes. Cortisol partially mediated the effects of genetic variation and life stress on limbic brain volumes, particularly on left amygdala volume. These results suggest that stress-related genetic and early environmental factors contribute to variation in stress cortisol reactivity and limbic brain volumes in children, phenotypes associated with depression in adulthood.

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“…T1 participants in this study were too young to 6 meaningfully complete questionnaire measures of depression [44], so teacher reports of externalising and internalising behavioural problems were used. These have been shown to be precursors to depressive feelings [32,42].…”

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Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms: an 8-year longitudinal study

Qualter

Brown

Munn

et al. 2009

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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Childhood loneliness is characterised by children's perceived dissatisfaction with aspects of their social relationships. This 8-year prospective study investigates whether loneliness in childhood predicts depressive symptoms in adolescence, controlling for early childhood indicators of emotional problems and a sociometric measure of peer social preference. 296 children were tested in the infant years of primary school (T1 5 years of age), in the upper primary school (T2 9 years of age) and in secondary school (T3 13 years of age). At T1, children completed the loneliness assessment and sociometric interview. Their teachers completed externalisation and internalisation rating scales for each child. At T2, children completed a loneliness assessment, a measure of depressive symptoms, and the sociometric interview. At T3, children completed the depressive symptom assessment. An SEM analysis showed that depressive symptoms in early adolescence (age 13) were predicted by reports of depressive symptoms at age 8, which were themselves predicted by internalisation in the infant school (5 years). The interactive effect of loneliness at 5 and 9, indicative of prolonged loneliness in childhood, also predicted depressive symptoms at age 13. Parent and peer-related loneliness at age 5 and 9, peer acceptance variables, and duration of parent loneliness did not predict depression. Our results suggest that enduring peer-related loneliness during childhood constitutes an interpersonal stressor that predisposes children to adolescent depressive symptoms. Possible mediators are discussed

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The Preschool Feelings Checklist: A Brief and Sensitive Screening Measure for Depression in Young Children

Cited by 159 publications

References 28 publications

Depressed and healthy preschoolers' internal representations of their mothers' caregiving: Associations with observed caregiving behaviors one year later

Depressed and healthy preschoolers' internal representations of their mothers' caregiving: Associations with observed caregiving behaviors one year later

Stress-System Genes and Life Stress Predict Cortisol Levels and Amygdala and Hippocampal Volumes in Children

Childhood loneliness as a predictor of adolescent depressive symptoms: an 8-year longitudinal study

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