The OADP-CDS: a brief screener for adolescent conduct disorder.
OBJECTIVE
To examine the ability of a very brief (6-item) self-report screener, the Oregon Adolescent Depression Project Conduct Disorder Screener (OADP-CDS), to identify adolescents with a lifetime diagnosis of conduct disorder and to examine its ability to predict antisocial personality disorder by age 24. Relevant scales from the Yough Self-Report and the Child Behavior Checklist were examined for comparison purposes.


METHODS
A total of 1,709 high school students completed an initial questionnaire and diagnostic interview assessment (T1); 1,507 participants returned approximately 1 year later for a second assessment (T2). A third (T3) assessment was conducted with selected T2 participants (n = 940) after they had turned 24 years of age.


RESULTS
The OADP-CDS had good internal consistency, test-retest stability, and screening properties. Differences in the screening ability of the OADP-CDS as a function of gender and social desirability were nonsignificant. The efficacy of the measure as a screener did not differ significantly from that of longer adolescent- and parent-report measures. Perhaps most importantly, the OADP-CDS was able to identify future cases of antisocial personality disorder in young adulthood.


CONCLUSIONS
Results suggest that self-report screening for conduct disorder with older adolescents is possible and should be explored further.
Lewinsohn
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Oregon Research Institute, Eugene 97403, USA.
Rohde
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Farrington
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D019955:Conduct Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods; D009922:Oregon; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales / Q000592:standards*; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012494:Sampling Studies