title: The use of a computer-assisted interview to administer the Child Behavior Checklist in a child psychiatry service.
abstract: This study describes the use of a computer-assisted interview to administer the Child Behavior Checklist to the parents of children referred to a child psychiatry service. The scores from the computer-assisted interview varied little from the scores obtained using the standard written checklist. Information collected by means of computer-assisted interviews with parents and children has the potential to facilitate the diagnostic assessment of individual children with emotional and behavioral problems, to provide a more comprehensive description of the work of child psychiatry services, and to encourage new clinical research by mental health professionals working in child psychiatry services.
authors.affiliation: Evaluation Unit, Adelaide Children Hospital, South Australia.
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Sawyer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sarris
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Baghurst
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001292:Attitude to Computers; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008838:Microcomputers; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011594:Psychometrics