Measurement Issues: Review of four patient reported outcome measures: <scp>SDQ</scp>,<scp> RCADS</scp>, C/<scp>ORS</scp> and <scp>GBO</scp> – their strengths and limitations for clinical use and service evaluation

Wolpert, Miranda; Cheng, Helen; Deighton, Jessica

doi:10.1111/camh.12065

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“…All but three studies used standardized rating scales such as CBCL or SDQ and were rated as strong, as these measures are reliable and valid. 28,29 Two studies used case notes review and were rated a strong because this method is also reliable and valid. 30 Regarding the issue of participant withdrawals, studies were categorized as strong if there appeared to be no dropouts.…”

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Do behavior and emotions improve after pediatric epilepsy surgery? A systematic review

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Objective The objective was to systematically review studies that have focused on behavioral and emotional functioning before (baseline) and after (follow‐up) pediatric epilepsy surgery. Methods The systematic review was carried out according to PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses) guidelines. PubMed and EMBASE were searched from inception. Findings are described with respect to (1) changes in behavior and emotions between baseline and follow‐up, (2) factors associated with changes in behavior and emotions, and (3) impact of study quality on findings. Results Fifteen studies met inclusion criteria. The majority of studies employed parent report screening checklists. In these studies, scores were reported to have significantly improved at follow‐up on at least one domain in seven studies and not to have changed significantly in two studies. In no studies was a deterioration in behavior noted. In studies that used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) clinical diagnoses, no significant change was noted in the numbers of children diagnosed at baseline and at follow‐up. In total, 21 children lost diagnoses, whereas 16 children developed new diagnoses. A better seizure outcome was associated with improvements in behavioral‐emotional functioning at follow‐up in three of the four studies where it was considered. In terms of study quality, none of the studies was rated as strong (ie, had no weak ratings on a quality assessment tool). Significance There is some evidence of improvement in emotional and behavioral functioning after epilepsy surgery. However, this is confined to scores on parent‐reported screening measures of emotional and behavioral symptoms and not clinical diagnoses. Future research should focus on including responses from multiple respondents (child, parent, teacher) when using screening instruments, but also diagnostic interviews. There is a need for long‐term follow‐up (beyond 2 years) with sufficiently large sample sizes including data from nonsurgery controls to understand factors associated with changes in functioning postsurgery.

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Section: Study Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Do behavior and emotions improve after pediatric epilepsy surgery? A systematic review

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“…It is also notable that a recent review was conducted by Wolpert and colleagues (2014) to compare to clinical utility between the following outcomes measures commonly used in clinical settings: the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the (Child) Outcomes Rating Scale (C/ORS), the Goals Based Outcomes (GBOs), and the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS). The RCADS was found to be able to provide the greatest assessment specificity compared to other clinically-oriented measures due to its anxiety subtype subscales (Wolpert et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The RCADS was found to be able to provide the greatest assessment specificity compared to other clinically-oriented measures due to its anxiety subtype subscales (Wolpert et al, 2014). Another study employed longitudinal confirmatory factor analysis and found support that the RCADS measures anxiety symptoms similarly across time, and thus changes in scores over time likely reflect true changes in anxiety levels (Mathyssek et al, 2013).…”

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The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale - Parent Version: Extended Applicability and Validity for Use with Younger Youth and Children with Histories of Early-Life Caregiver Neglect

Ebesutani

Tottenham

Chorpita

2015

J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale - Parent Version (RCADS-P) is a widely used parent-report measure, initially developed to assess anxiety and depression in youth in grades 3–12 from school-based and clinic-referred settings. It is important however to be able to assess these problems in even younger children due to the need for earlier understanding, identification, intervention and prevention efforts of anxiety and depression in younger children, and continual monitoring of these problems across the youth life span. For the present study, we used a sample of 307 children and adolescents ages 3.0 to 17.5 years old (M=8.68, SE=4.10). For the first set of analyses, we divided the sample into Younger youth (kindergarten to grade 2; n=152) and Older youth (grade 3 to 12; n=155) to see whether each group independently met benchmarks for acceptable reliability and validity. Given the number of children who also develop anxiety and depression following early-life adversities and adverse care (such as caregiver neglect), we also divided our sample differently into a Post-Institutionalized group (i.e., previously institutionalized youth; n=100) and a Comparison group (i.e., youth without histories of early-life caregiver neglect; n=195) to examine whether each of these groups also met benchmarks for acceptable reliability and validity. Specifically, in each of these grade and experience groups, we examined the factor structure (including measurement invariance), internal consistency and convergent and discriminant validity of the RCADS-P anxiety and depression scales scores. Results demonstrated that younger youth RCADS-P reports were associated with acceptable reliability and validity estimates. Similar support for the RCADS-P scores was found for the Post-Institutionalized youth. The present study therefore extends needed support for the use of the RCADS-P to assess and monitor these two new and important youth groups.

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“…Furthermore, a recent study asserted that the RCADS seems to be one of the most sensitive-to-change tools of the reported outcome measures they reviewed (Wolpert et al, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale: A systematic review and reliability generalization meta-analysis

Rodríguez

Martin-Vivar

Sandín

et al. 2017

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Measurement Issues: Review of four patient reported outcome measures: SDQ, RCADS, C/ORS and GBO – their strengths and limitations for clinical use and service evaluation

Cited by 57 publications

References 50 publications

Do behavior and emotions improve after pediatric epilepsy surgery? A systematic review

Do behavior and emotions improve after pediatric epilepsy surgery? A systematic review

The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale - Parent Version: Extended Applicability and Validity for Use with Younger Youth and Children with Histories of Early-Life Caregiver Neglect

The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale: A systematic review and reliability generalization meta-analysis

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