TY - JOUR
T1 - The Child Behaviour Checklist and the Rutter Parental Questionnaire
T2 - A comparison between two screening instruments
AU - Fombonne, Eric
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a grant to Dr E. Fombonne and Professor R. Diatkine from INSERM/CNAMTS (no. 85 3 18 8 E).
PY - 1989/8
Y1 - 1989/8
N2 - Synopsis In order to carry out an epidemiological survey of child psychiatric disorders in a community sample, the Child Behaviour Checklist was chosen as a parental questionnaire for screening in the first stage of the study. A French version of this instrument was developed and a pilot study of the scale was completed on a clinical sample (N = 127). As a criterion to gauge its validity, the Rutter scale was used as a concurrent measure. The correlation coefficient between the total scores of the two scales is 0.79, and ranges between 0.22 and 0.96 for individual items. A linear regression analysis, using the total score of the Rutter scale as an independent variable, predicts a value of 41 as the optimal cut-off to be used for the Child Behaviour Checklist. Comparative properties (reliability and time of completion) of the two scales are presented and discussed.
AB - Synopsis In order to carry out an epidemiological survey of child psychiatric disorders in a community sample, the Child Behaviour Checklist was chosen as a parental questionnaire for screening in the first stage of the study. A French version of this instrument was developed and a pilot study of the scale was completed on a clinical sample (N = 127). As a criterion to gauge its validity, the Rutter scale was used as a concurrent measure. The correlation coefficient between the total scores of the two scales is 0.79, and ranges between 0.22 and 0.96 for individual items. A linear regression analysis, using the total score of the Rutter scale as an independent variable, predicts a value of 41 as the optimal cut-off to be used for the Child Behaviour Checklist. Comparative properties (reliability and time of completion) of the two scales are presented and discussed.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0033291700024387
DO - 10.1017/S0033291700024387
M3 - Article
C2 - 2798646
AN - SCOPUS:0024443088
SN - 0033-2917
VL - 19
SP - 777
EP - 785
JO - Psychological Medicine
JF - Psychological Medicine
IS - 3
ER -