Reliability and validity of the Iowa Conners rating scale in Chinese children

Introduction: The last decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in the clinician’s subjectivity and its role in the diagnostic assessment. Integrating the criteriological, third-person approach to patient evaluation and psychiatric diagnosis with other approaches that take into account the patient’s subjective and intersubjective experience may bear particular importance in the assessment of very young patients. The ACSE (Assessment of Clinician’s Subjective Experience) instrument may provide a practical way to probe the intersubjective field of the clinical examination; however, its reliability and validity in child and adolescent psychiatrists seeing very young patients is still to be determined. Methods: Thirty-three clinicians and 278 first-contact patients aged 12–17 years participated in this study. The clinicians completed the ACSE instrument and the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale after seeing the patient, and the Profile of Mood State (POMS) just before seeing the patient and immediately after. The ACSE was completed again for 45 patients over a short (1–4 days) retest interval. Results: All ACSE scales showed high internal consistency and moderate to high temporal stability. Also, they displayed meaningful correlations with the changes in conceptually related POMS scales during the clinical examination. Discussion: The findings corroborate and extend previous work on adult patients and suggest that the ACSE provides a valid and reliable measure of the clinician’s subjective experience in adolescent psychiatric practice, too. The instrument may prove to be useful to help identify patients in the early stages of psychosis, in whom subtle alterations of being with others may be the only detectable sign. Future studies are needed to determine the feasibility and usefulness of integrating the ACSE within current approaches to the evaluation of at-risk mental states.

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A comparison of the ‘Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression’ and the ‘Montgomery-Asberg Depression rating Scale’

Acta Neuropsychiatrica ◽

10.1017/s0924270800036358 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 34-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

I.P.A.M. Huijbrechts ◽

P.M.J. Haffmans ◽

K. Jonker ◽

A. van Dijke ◽

E. Hoencamp

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

Clinical Global Impression ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Clinical Impression ◽

Clinical Relationship ◽

Hamilton Rating Scale ◽

Depressive States

SummaryAlthough the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRSD) is the most frequently used rating scale for quantifying depressive states, it has been criticized for its reliability and its usability in clinical practice. This criticism is less applying to the Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS). Goal of the present study is to investigate the reliability and validity, and clinical relationship between the HRSD and the MADRS. For 60 out-patients with diagnosed depression (DSM IV296.2x, 296.3x, 300.40 and 311.00), the HRSD and MADRS were scored at baseline and 6 weeks later by an independent rater according to a structured interview. Also the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) was assessed by a psychiatrist. Satisfying agreement was found between the totalscores (r= .75, p>.000 en r=.92, p>.000 respectively, at baseline and 6 weeks later). Furthermore agreement was found between the items of both scales, and these agree with the clinical impression. The reliability of the MADRS is more stable than the reliability of the HRSD (α = .6367 and α =.8900 vs α = .2193 and α = .8362 at baseline and at endpoint respectively). Considering the ease of scoring both scales in one interview and the widely international use of the HRSD, scoring both the HRSD and the MADRS to measure the severity of a depression seems to be an acceptabel covenant.

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Development and reliability of a standard rating system for outcome measurement of foot and ankle disorders II: interclinician andintraclinician reliability and validity of the newly established standard rating scales and Japanese Orthopaedic Association rating scale

Journal of Orthopaedic Science ◽

10.1007/s00776-005-0937-1 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 10 (5) ◽

pp. 466-474 ◽

Cited By ~ 96

Author(s):

Hisateru Niki ◽

Haruhito Aoki ◽

Suguru Inokuchi ◽

Satoru Ozeki ◽

Mitsuo Kinoshita ◽

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Keyword(s):

Rating Scales ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Outcome Measurement ◽

Japanese Orthopaedic Association ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Rating System ◽

Foot And Ankle

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Is one good enough? Gauging brand love using a visual single-item measure

Journal of Contemporary Marketing Science ◽

10.1108/jcmars-11-2019-0040 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Salim Moussa

Keyword(s):

Concurrent Validity ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Single Item ◽

Brand Love ◽

Content Type ◽

Visual Rating ◽

Product Categories ◽

Willingness To Forgive

PurposeThough brand love is recognized as being an important marketing topic both for theory and practice, a gap still exists with regard to its operationalization. To bridge this gap, this paper proposes a single-item measure (SIM) that uses a visual rating scale (i.e., a rating scale combining verbal with nonverbal contents).Design/methodology/approachThree studies covering over 700 respondents and examining three international brands over three product categories were conducted to test the new measure.FindingsFindings provide consistent evidence for the reliability and validity of the proposed measure. They also demonstrate that brand love, as gauged by the new SIM, is good in predicting positive word of mouth, willingness to pay a higher price, and willingness to forgive brand mishaps.Research limitations/implicationsThe paper focuses on brand love mainly from a measurement perspective.Practical implicationsThis paper provides a practical and parsimonious tool to measure brand love.Originality/valueExtant SIMs of brand love are less than ordinal, content invalid, of unknown reliability, and of untested concurrent validity. This paper provides academics and practitioners alike with a SIM of brand love that is ordinal, content valid, and tested in terms of reliability and concurrent validity.

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Reliability and Validity of the Upper Limb Physician's Rating Scale in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Yonsei Medical Journal ◽

10.3349/ymj.2015.56.1.271 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 56 (1) ◽

pp. 271 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Eun Sook Park ◽

Ji-Woon Joo ◽

Seon Ah Kim ◽

Dong-Wook Rha ◽

Soo Jin Jung

Keyword(s):

Cerebral Palsy ◽

Upper Limb ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Children With Cerebral Palsy

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Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the post‐traumatic embitterment disorder self‐rating scale (PTED‐21) among inpatients in general hospital

Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy ◽

10.1002/cpp.2542 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Xiaoyan Wang ◽

Yuting Gao ◽

Liangliang Tan ◽

Yuqun Zhang ◽

Ting Yang ◽

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Keyword(s):

General Hospital ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

Chinese Version ◽

Self Rating ◽

Post Traumatic

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Reliability and validity of the Mizo-version of neck disability index for non-specific neck pain in the rural North-East Indian population

International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences ◽

10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20195929 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 317

Author(s):

Andrew Lalchhuanawma ◽

Divya Sanghi

Keyword(s):

Neck Pain ◽

Correlation Coefficient ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Neck Disability Index ◽

Reliability And Validity ◽

East Indian ◽

North East ◽

Study Results ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Neck Disability

Background: The Neck Disability Index (NDI) is an important self-assessment tool used extensively worldwide, in clinical practice with implications into scientific research fields. It is used to assess the extent of pain and levels of functional disability associated with neck pain. The NDI consists of 10 items where each item was scored from a scale of 0 to 5 giving the maximum score possible to 50. Though proven to be a reliable instrument in the English-speaking population, the NDI has never been validated and culturally adapted in the Mizo language among the rural north-east Indian region where English is not spoken as means of communication. The aim is to translate and cross culturally adapt the NDI into Mizo tawng (official language of Mizoram) with the objective of establishing reliability and validity of the M-NDI in patients with non-specific neck pain.Methods: A total of 49 subjects participated voluntarily from the rural primary health care, Lunglei district, Mizoram. Subject having chronic non-specific neck pain lasting more than 3 months were included after taking a written formal consent.Results: The internal consistency determined by Cronbach alpha, and the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) using the test-retest reliability showed a good and an excellent reliability respectively (α=0.82, ICC=0.97, 95% CI= 0.95-0.98). Construct validity was determined between the variables-Numerical Pain Rating Scale (NPRS) and NDI by Pearson’s correlation coefficient and found to have a good correlation r=0.89 and significant difference at p<0.001.Conclusions: The study results concluded the Mizo version of NDI to be easy to understand, reliable and valid instrument for measuring disability and functional limitations of daily activities in non-specific neck pain in the Mizo speaking population.

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