Abstract
SYNOPSIS Seventy-seven 10–18-year-old psychiatric in-patients and out-patients took part in a test-retest study of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA). They were interviewed on two occasions several days apart. Overall reliability of diagnosis ranged from K = 0·55 (conduct disorder) to 1·0 (substance abuse or dependence). In general, reliability for scale scores of psychopathology was somewhat lower in out-patients than in-patients, though the opposite was the case for anxiety disorders and psychosocial incapacity and the reliability of the diagnosis of conduct disorder – the only individual diagnosis sufficiently common to permit this comparison. Unreliability of reports of behavioural problems was found to be related to admitting to being a liar in the first interview. The implications of these results for the use of the CAPA are discussed.
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Psychiatric diagnosisMedical diagnosisPsychiatryTest (biology)PsychologyReliability (semiconductor)Psychiatric assessmentMedicineClinical psychologySchizophrenia (object-oriented programming)
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Adrian Angold,
E. Jane Costello
(1995).
A test–retest reliability study of child-reported psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (CAPA-C).
Psychological Medicine
, 25
(4)
, 755-762.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700034991
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- 10.1017/s0033291700034991