Parent-child agreement on child psychiatric symptoms assessed via structured interview.
Correlations between scores derived from structured interviews with 299 disturbed children aged 6-18 and their parents indicated low-to-moderate levels of agreement regarding the presence and severity of child psychiatric symptoms. Agreement was higher on behavior and conduct problems than on anxiety, fears, obsessions-compulsions, psychotic symptoms and affective disturbances. Parents reported more child behavior and conduct problems than children, whereas children reported more affective and neurotic symptoms than parents. Parent-child agreement also increased sharply with age.
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010290:Parents; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales