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A rating scale for the severity of psychopathology in children
- Source :
- ResearcherID
- Publication Year :
- 1989
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Abstract
- The Scale for Assessing Severity of the Psychopathology in Children (SSPC) is intended to measure the overall psychosocial impairment caused to children and adolescents by psychic disorders. The scale contains 3 items (number of impaired areas of psychosocial functioning and duration of the modifications of child's behaviour; decrease of school performances below the expected level according to IQ; subjective distress caused by the psychic disorder either to the child or to the family leading to call for medical help) defining a single dimension. Each item is scaled on four degrees of impairment and described behaviourally in a detailed way. The total score summed over the 3 items corresponds to four levels of severity of the psychopathology. Interrater reliability, sensitivity to change and concurrent validity of the SSPC are examined over three studies.
Details
- ISSN :
- 02596326
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Neurologie et psychiatrie
- Accession number :
- edsair.pmid.dedup....c5722799fcc9c238e9d8d182a95edb20