The reliability and validity of Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime Version- Korean version (K-SADS-PL-K).
In order to develop a structured and objective diagnostic instrument, authors completed: (1) the translation and back translation of the Korean version of the Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia - Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL) and (2) the examination of its validity and reliability of the K-SADS-PL-Korean version (K-SADS- PL) when used with Korean children. A total of 91 study subjects were recruited from child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinics. Clinical diagnoses were used as a gold standard for the examination of validity of K-SADS-PL-K. Consensual validity of threshold and sub-threshold diagnoses were good to excellent for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), fair for tic and oppositional defiant disorders, and poor to fair for anxiety and depressive disorders. Inter-rater and test-retest reliabilities were fair to excellent for ADHD and tic disorder. The significant correlations between the K-SADS-PL-K and Korean Child Behavior Checklist (K-CBCL) were found, which provided additional support for the concurrent validity of the K-SADS-PL-K. Sensitivities varied according to the diagnostic categories, but specificities remained high over all diagnoses, suggesting that the K-SADS-PL-K is a desirable confirmatory diagnostic tool. The results of this study suggest that the K-SADS-PL-K is an effective instrument for diagnosing major child psychiatric disorders, including ADHD, behavioral disorders and tic disorders in Korean children. Future studies will examine the validity and reliability of the K-SADS-PL-K in larger samples, including adolescents and community samples on a variety of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders.
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, Korea. kimy02@berkeley.edu
Young Shin
YS
Kim
Keun-Ah
KA
Cheon
Boong-Nyun
BN
Kim
Soon-Ah
SA
Chang
Hee-Jeong
HJ
Yoo
Jae-Won
JW
Kim
Soo-Churl
SC
Cho
Dong-Hyang
DH
Seo
Myeong-Ok
MO
Bae
Yu-Kyoung
YK
So
Joo-Sun
JS
Noh
Yun-Joo
YJ
Koh
Keith
K
McBurnett
Bennett
B
Leventhal
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D014177:Translations