Cited by 1,755Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentMental Health Research TopicsPsychological Testing and Assessment

The Development and Well‐Being Assessment: Description and Initial Validation of an Integrated Assessment of Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Goodman, Robert, Ford, Tamsin, Richards, Hilary, Gatward, Rebecca, Meltzer, Howard·2000·Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Abstract

The Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA) is a novel package of questionnaires, interviews, and rating techniques designed to generate ICD-10 and DSM-IV psychiatric diagnoses on 5-16-year-olds. Nonclinical interviewers administer a structured interview to parents about psychiatric symptoms and resultant impact. When definite symptoms are identified by the structured questions, interviewers use open-ended questions and supplementary prompts to get parents to describe the problems in their own words. These descriptions are transcribed verbatim by the interviewers but are not rated by them. A similar interview is administered to 11-16-year-olds. Teachers complete a brief questionnaire covering the main conduct, emotional, and hyperactivity symptoms and any resultant impairment. The different sorts of information are brought together by a computer program that also predicts likely diagnoses. These computer-generated summary sheets and diagnoses form a convenient starting point for experienced clinical raters, who decide whether to accept or overturn the computer diagnosis (or lack of diagnosis) in the light of their review of all the data, including transcripts. In the present study, the DAWBA was administered to community (N = 491) and clinic (N = 39) samples. There was excellent discrimination between community and clinic samples in rates of diagnosed disorder. Within the community sample, subjects with and without diagnosed disorders differed markedly in external chara…

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Authors
Goodman, R., Ford, T., Richards, H., Gatward, R., & Meltzer, H.
Affiliations
Office for National Statistics (GB)
Corresponding author
Goodman, Robert
Venue
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2000-07
Volume
41
Issue
5
Pages
645-655
ISSN
  • 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-7610
OpenAlex
W2156177125
Cited by
1,755
References
4
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FWCI
9.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Psychological Testing and Assessment
Keywords
Development and Well-Being Assessment, child psychopathology, adolescent psychopathology, psychiatric diagnosis, parent interviews, diagnostic agreement, comorbidities, screening questions
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Mental Disorders, Child, Child, Preschool, Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted, Diagnosis, Differential, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Interview, Psychological, London, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sampling Studies, Reproducibility of Results

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