title: Reliability of clinical ratings by trainee child psychiatrists: a research note.
abstract: Trainee and senior psychiatrists separately rated the symptoms and signs of 14 consecutive referrals to a child psychiatric team. Inter-rater reliabilities ranged from 0.61 to 0.94 on four clinically relevant dimensions of psychopathology. Aggregating all items, trainees' ratings identified whether or not items were definitely present with greater than 95% accuracy, as judged by a senior psychiatrist's ratings and a review of the case notes. This pilot study suggests that trainees' ratings can be of acceptable reliability for research purposes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Goodman
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Simonoff
mesh_terms: D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D015588:Observer Variation; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010553:Personality Development; D011594:Psychometrics; D012917:Social Adjustment