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The Dominic-R: a pictorial interview for 6- to 11-year-old children

J P Valla1, L Bergeron, N Smolla

  • 1Rivière-des-Prairies Hospital, Research Department, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. jpvalla@sympatico.ca

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
|January 19, 2000
PubMed

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Pictorial questionnaires assessing child mental health disorders are reliable for young children. These instruments, based on DSM criteria, aid in clinical and screening purposes.

Area of Science:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Psychometric Assessment
  • Mental Health Screening

Background:

  • Review of Dominic-R and Terry questionnaires for assessing mental disorders in children aged 6-11.
  • Focus on both DSM-III-R (paper) and DSM-IV (computerized) versions.
  • Exploration of instruments designed for white and African-American children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review the development, content, validation, and diagnostic cutpoints of the Dominic-R and Terry questionnaires.
  • To evaluate the suitability of these instruments for assessing child mental health.
  • To assess the reliability and validity of pictorial, structured questionnaires for young informants.

Main Methods:

  • Systematic review of five papers detailing the questionnaires' characteristics.
  • Analysis of instruments utilizing a visual-auditory stimulus approach with complementary symptom descriptions.
  • Consideration of limitations in assessing frequency, duration, and age-of-onset due to cognitive immaturity.

Main Results:

  • Test-retest reliability of symptoms and symptom scores was supported.
  • Criterion validity against clinical judgment was established.
  • The visual-auditory stimulus combination demonstrated effectiveness in assessing child mental health.

Conclusions:

  • The pictorial format enables young children to serve as reliable informants regarding their mental health.
  • These instruments are suitable for clinical, epidemiological, and screening purposes due to their brevity and simplicity.
  • The questionnaires approximate DSM-III-R and DSM-IV criteria for assessing various childhood mental disorders.
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