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Validity of the shortened Mood and Feelings Questionnaire in a community sample of children and adolescents: a preliminary research note

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Thapar, Anita, McGuffin, Peter·1998·Psychiatry Research
DOI 10.1016/s0165-1781(98)00073-0
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The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) was designed to detect clinical depression in children and adolescents. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between symptom scores obtained using the short-version MFQ and psychiatric disorders in a non-clinical sample. Seventy-eight parents and 71 twins, who had completed the MFQ, were interviewed separately using a semistructured diagnostic interview, the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment. Parent-rated MFQ scores (MFQ-P) were found to distinguish those with ICD-10 (point biserial correlation = 0.345) and DSM-III-R depression (point biserial correlation = 0.369) from non-depressed cases. MFQ-P scores also differentiated depressed cases from those with 'other psychiatric diagnoses' (any anxiety disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder, hyperkinetic disorder/attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and adjustment disorder/post-traumatic disorder). The MFQ-P at the chosen cut-off point showed a sensitivity of 0.75 and specificity of 0.73 for an ICD-10 diagnosis of depression and a sensitivity of 0.86 and specificity of 0.87 for DSM-III-R depression. The number of self-rated reports (MFQ-C) was small, but overall the results suggest that self-rated MFQ scores may show less specificity. The MFQ-C at the selected cut-off point showed a sensitivity of 0.6 and specificity of 0.61 for ICD-10 depression, and a sensitivity of 0.75 and specificity of 0.74 for DSM-III-R depression.

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Authors
Thapar, A., & McGuffin, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Manchester (GB)
  • Cardiff University (GB)
Corresponding author
Thapar, Anita
ORCID
Venue
Psychiatry Research
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1998-11
Volume
81
Issue
2
Pages
259-268
ISSN
0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/s0165-1781(98)00073-0
OpenAlex
W2095963507
Cited by
268
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20
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FWCI
0.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
University of Manchester
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
Keywords
Mood and Feelings Questionnaire, depression screening, children and adolescents, questionnaire validity, sensitivity and specificity, psychiatric comorbidity, anxiety disorders, conduct disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, twins
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Affect, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Sampling Studies, Reproducibility of Results, Comorbidity

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