Journal Article

The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Childhood Diagnoses (Kid-SCID): First Psychometric Evaluation in a Dutch Sample of Clinically Referred Youths

Muris, Peter, Arntz, Arnoud, Braet, Caroline, Beelen, Imke, Roelofs, Jeffrey

2015

Overview

The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Childhood Disorders (Kid-SCID) is a semi-structured interview for the classification of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. This study presents a first evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Kid-SCID in a Dutch sample of children and adolescents who had been referred to an outpatient treatment centre for mental health problems. Results indicated that the inter-rater reliability of the Kid-SCID classifications and the internal consistency of various (dimensional) criteria of the diagnoses were moderate to good. Further, for most Kid-SCID diagnoses, reasonable agreement between children and parents was found. Finally, the correspondence between the Kid-SCID and the final clinical diagnosis as established after the full intake procedure, which included the information as provided by the Kid-SCID, ranged from poor to good. Results are discussed in the light of methodological issues pertaining to the assessment of psychiatric disorders in youths. The Kid-SCID can generally be seen as a reliable and useful tool that can assist clinicians in carrying out clinical evaluations of children and adolescents.

• Publisher: Springer US,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Adolescent / Adolescents / Anxiety Disorders / Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder / Behavioral Science and Psychology / Child / Child and School Psychology / Childhood / Children / Children & youth / Classification / Clinical assessment / Clinical Diagnosis / Clinical interviews / Developmental Psychology / Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders / Disorders / Female / Health problems / Humans / Interrater Reliability / Interview, Psychological / Interviews / Male / Medical diagnosis / Medical Evaluation / Mental disorders / Mental Disorders - diagnosis / Mental Health / Mental health services / Meta Analysis / Methodological problems / Netherlands / Original Article / Outpatient treatment / Parent-child relations / Parents / Posttraumatic Stress Disorder / Property / Psychiatric Status Rating Scales - standards / Psychiatry / Psychology / Psychometrics / Psychometrics - instrumentation / Psychopathology / Quantitative psychology / Recall (Psychology) / Reliability / Reproducibility of Results / Resistance (Psychology) / Schizophrenia / Semi Structured Interviews / Separation Anxiety / Structured Interviews / Studies / Validity