Multiple Informant Agreement and the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Parents and Children

GRILLS, AMIE E.; OLLENDICK, THOMAS H.

doi:10.1097/00004583-200301000-00008

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Multiple Informant Agreement and the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Parents and Children

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GRILLS, AMIE E., OLLENDICK, THOMAS H.·2003·Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

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Objective To examine concordance of child, parent, and consensus agreement on the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule, Child and Parent versions (ADIS-C/P), for an outpatient sample of children and adolescents and to explore moderators of those relations. Child characteristics (age, gender, social desirability), a family environment variable (conflict), and type of diagnoses (internalizing, externalizing) were systematically examined.Method These relations were examined in 165 children and adolescents referred to a psychological clinic by family practitioners, pediatricians, schools, and mental health professionals. Participants were individually administered the ADIS-C or ADIS-P by separate clinicians, and consensus diagnoses were determined in a clinical conference. Agreements between child-parent, child-consensus, and parent-consensus were determined.Results Poor levels of agreement were found among our informants, especially between child and parent and to some extent between child and consensus. Agreement was higher between parent and consensus, suggesting that our clinicians tended to favor parent input over child input. Although the effects were complex, characteristics of the child, family, and type of diagnosis moderated or qualified these findings.Conclusions Although discrepancies exist among our informants, our overall findings suggest important information is obtained from each informant and, when combined with certain modifying characteristics, may lead to diagnostic and treatment decisions.

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Authors: GRILLS, A. E., & OLLENDICK, T. H.
Affiliations: Virginia Tech (US)
Corresponding author: GRILLS, AMIE E.
OLLENDICK, THOMAS H.
ORCID: GRILLS, AMIE E.
OLLENDICK, THOMAS H.
Venue: Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2003-01
Volume: 42
Issue: 1
Pages: 30-40
ISSN: 0890-8567 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200301000-00008
OpenAlex: W1969315389
Cited by: 466
References: 22
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FWCI: 17.77
Type: journal article
Language: en
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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 › Decision Sciences › Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty › Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
Keywords: parent-child agreement, diagnostic agreement, family conflict, internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, social desirability
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Age Factors, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Female, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Sex Factors, Social Desirability, Virginia, Reproducibility of Results, Observer Variation, Consensus

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