Use of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist in a Low-Income, Mexican American Population

Abstract

When using the PSC, a new cutoff score of 12 for clinical significance should be considered if screening low-income, Mexican American children for behavioral problems. Additional study is indicated to determine the causes of the PSC's apparently lower sensitivity in Mexican American populations.

Identification of emotional and behavior problems in obese children using Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and 17-items Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC-17)

“…The specificity of PSC-17 found in this study was 95.6% (95%CI 87.6 to 99.1%), which meant that it would give negative results in 95.6% of children who did not have emotional and behaviour problems. 71 These results were similar to those of previous studies [27][28] who found the sensitivity and specificity of PSC-35 around 71.7-74% and 93-94%, respectively. The PSC-17 is a simplification of PSC-35 with reduced number of questions from 35 to 17, however the sensitiviy and specificity is almost the same.…”

Application of Youth Self-Report for Age 11-18 for Screening of Mental Disorders in the Adolescence

“…As for the item EP, our study showed similar results to a research conducted in Alabama using the YSR, which also was significantly higher in girls [10]. This is an interesting finding, since the item EP in other Brazilian studies was more frequent in boys [16,27].…”

“…The score for EP was similar to that found in a study conducted in Brazil and well above those reported in two American studies, both of which used the CBCL and one of which also used the YSR. The analysis of IP in our study showed a higher percentage when compared with the Brazilian and American studies [7,9,10].…”

Cross-cultural validation: Sinhala versions of pediatric symptom checklists for screening adolescent psychosocial problems

“…The original recommended cut-off values for the PSC and PSC-Y were ≥28 and ≥30 (24,25), respectively, with subscale cut-off scores of 5, 7, and 7 for internalizing, externalizing, and attention problems (26,27). However, the present study found lower cut-off scores for the PSC-Y, which have also been observed in studies conducted in Mexico, Turkey and India, with proposed cut-off scores ranging from 12 to 26 (17,(28)(29)(30). Differences in the way symptoms are expressed and emotional distress is somatised across cultures can lead to lower cut-off scores in psychometric tests (30)(31)(32).…”