Development of the assessment for emotional and behavioral problems in school-aged children.

Autor: Chen KL; Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan; Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Electronic address: klchen@mail.ncku.edu.tw., Chen KH; Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Kai-Syuan Psychiatric Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Division of Psychiatry, E-DA Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Electronic address: ckh9339@yahoo.com.tw., Lei SM; Department of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Municipal Kai-Syuan Psychiatric Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Division of Psychiatry, E-DA Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Electronic address: ed103966@edah.org.tw., Lee P; Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Electronic address: posenlee@isu.edu.tw., Huang CY; School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan. Electronic address: ellienhuang@ntu.edu.tw.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Asian journal of psychiatry [Asian J Psychiatr] 2024 Nov; Vol. 101, pp. 104198. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 30.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2024.104198
Abstrakt: Background: Several assessments have been developed to assess school-aged children's emotional and behavioral problems (EBPs), but none based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition, Text Revision. This study aimed to develop the Assessment for Emotional and Behavioral Problems in School-aged children (AEBPS) fitting current knowledge of mental health disorders.
Materials and Methods: This study included 2 phases. In Phase I, the assessment construct and its corresponding items were developed. In Phase II, the reliability and validity of the AEBPS were examined.
Results: The AEBPS contains 120 items in five subscales. The psychometric results showed that the AEBPS subscales had high internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.83-0.97) and acceptable to good test-retest reliability (intra-class correlation coefficient = 0.65-0.93). The results of exploratory factor analysis showed that most items within each subscale of the AEBPS significantly contributed to their respective concepts. The AEBPS subscales had small to high correlations with the subscales of the Child Behavior Checklist (r = 0.37-0.87). The AEBPS had good discriminant validity to differentiate children with and without EBPs.
Conclusions: The newly-developed AEBPS fits the current knowledge of mental health diagnoses for assessing school-aged children's EBPs and has sound psychometric evidence. The AEBPS can be reliably and validly used in a variety of settings.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest All authors declare that: (i) no support, financial or otherwise, has been received from any organization that may have an interest in the submitted work; and (ii) there are no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work.
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