KSADS-COMP Perspectives on Child Psychiatric Diagnostic Assessment and Treatment Planning
Joan Kaufman1, Ken Kobak2, Boris Birmaher3
1Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Abstract:
Gibbons et al.1 demonstrated the utility of computerized adaptive tests (CATs) based on multidimensional item response theory for the assessment of depression, anxiety, mania/hypomania, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, and suicidality in children and adolescents. The Kiddie-Computerized Adaptive Test (K-CAT) demonstrated good convergent validity, test-retest reliability, and diagnostic concordance with diagnoses derived using the paper-and-pencil Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children (K-SADS) child psychiatric interview.
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