title: CBCL clinical scales discriminate prepubertal children with structured interview-derived diagnosis of mania from those with ADHD.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the discriminative ability of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) to identify children with structured interview-derived diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  We evaluated the convergence of CBCL scales with the diagnosis of mania in 31 children with mania, 120 children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and 77 prepubertal normal control children aged 12 years or younger. We evaluated the strength of association between each CBCL scale and structured interview-derived diagnoses with total predictive value and the odds ratio.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Excellent convergence was found between the CBCL scales of Delinquent Behavior, Aggressive Behavior, Somatic Complaints, Anxious/Depressed, and Thought Problems and the diagnosis of mania.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These findings indicate that the CBCL could serve as a rapid and useful screening instrument to identify manic children in clinical settings.
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Psychopharmacology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Biederman
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wozniak
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kiely
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ablon
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Faraone
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mick
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mundy
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kraus
mesh_terms: D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results