Adequacy of interviews vs checklists for classifying childhood psychiatric disorder based on parent reports

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 793-799

  Boyle, Michael H ^a   Offord, David R ^b   Racine, Yvonne A ^b   Szatmari, Peter ^b   Sanford, Mark ^b   Fleming, Jan E ^b  

^a Centre for Studies of Children at Risk   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PARENT; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030773105     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1997.01830210029003     Document Type: Article

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