Longitudinal assessment of major depression and anxiety disorders in children. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 1991 Jan;30(1):38-42
Date
01/01/1991Pubmed ID
2005062DOI
10.1097/00004583-199101000-00006Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0026078058 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 21 CitationsAbstract
Two-year recall and mother-child agreement with respect to a child's DSM-III lifetime diagnoses of major depression and anxiety disorder, based on K-SADS-E interviews with children, were assessed for a sample of 59 children, 6 to 16 years of age, at high and low risk for depression. The mothers had excellent recall and the children had good recall of a child's major depression. Both mothers and children had poor recall of a child's anxiety disorder. Mother-child agreement on major depression in children improved at the 2-year follow-up. A comparison of diagnoses based on mother and child reports with the psychiatrists' best estimate diagnoses of major depression suggested that children were more informative than mothers at the initial interview. The children were slightly less informative than the mothers at follow-up. These findings underscore the importance of multiple informants and longitudinal assessment in research on childhood psychiatric disorder.
Author List
Fendrich M, Weissman MM, Warner VAuthor
Michael Fendrich PhD Professor in the Emergency Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdolescentAdult
Anxiety Disorders
Child
Child of Impaired Parents
Connecticut
Cross-Sectional Studies
Depressive Disorder
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Incidence
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Personality Assessment
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
