A Parent General Behavior Inventory subscale to measure sleep disturbance in pediatric bipolar disorder

Autor: Oren Meyers, Eric A. Youngstrom
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: The Journal of clinical psychiatry. 69(5)
ISSN: 1555-2101
Popis: Objective: Sleep disturbance is a reliable marker for differentiating children with bipolar spectrum disorders from those with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Sleep-related items were extracted from the Parent General Behavior Inventory (P-GBI) to determine whether these items, as a scale unto themselves, demonstrate adequate psychometrics to be useful as a possible endophenotypic marker for bipolar spectrum disorders. Method: From July 2003 to July 2007, 625 youths and their parents completed semistructured Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime version interviews. Parents also completed the 73-item P-GBI. Results: Participants with bipolar spectrum disorders (DSM-IV criteria) scored significantly higher than all other participants on all 7 of the sleep variables (p
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