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The children's services interview: validity and reliability.

Tamsin Ford1, Helena Hamilton, Sabina Dosani

  • 1Kings College London, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK. t.ford@iop.kcl.ac.uk

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
|September 14, 2006
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The Children's Services Interview provides a valid and reliable method for assessing mental health service use in children. This tool aids in understanding service utilization patterns for children's mental health needs.

Area of Science:

  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health
  • Health Services Research
  • Psychometric Validation

Background:

  • The Children's Services Interview was developed as a concise measure for service use related to mental health issues in Great Britain.
  • Understanding service utilization is crucial for effective mental health care planning and delivery for children.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To validate the Children's Services Interview against medical records.
  • To assess the test-retest reliability of the interview.
  • To examine criterion validity by analyzing service use patterns across different child disorder types.

Main Methods:

  • Validation against medical records for 87 children.
  • Test-retest reliability assessment with 25 parents completing two interviews.

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  • Criterion validity analysis based on service use in children with various disorders.

    • Main Results:

    • The interview demonstrated high face validity.
    • Moderate or better concordance with medical records for documented contacts.
    • Moderate or better test-retest reliability, with exceptions for specific contact types (voluntary sector, teachers) and appointment details.

    Conclusions:

    • The Children's Services Interview is a moderately valid and reliable tool for collecting data on children's service use.
    • Findings support the use of this interview in clinical and research settings for mental health service evaluation.