title: Assessing expressed emotion: comparing Camberwell Family Interview and Five-minute Speech Sample ratings for mothers of children with behaviour problems.
abstract: Little is known of the concordance between ratings of expressed emotion (EE) derived from the Camberwell Family Interview (CFI) and Five-minute Speech Sample (FMSS) for parents of children with behaviour problems. Concordance between CFI and FMSS ratings of EE was assessed prior to intervention and compared to parent-rated behaviour after intervention, at follow-up, 12 months later. Female primary caretakers of 75 children (3-10 years) showing behavioural difficulties were interviewed using FMSS and CFI. Interviews were coded independently by criterion-standard raters. Using CFI, 57 families were classified high EE, and 18 low EE. Using FMSS, 65 families were classified high EE and 10 low EE. 55/75 pairs of ratings (73%) were the same (high, n = 51: low, n = 4) and 20 mothers (27%) were allocated different EE status (Kappa = 0.14, n.s.). The FMSS ratings at initial interview appeared more closely related to behaviour rating at follow-up than CFI. Further investigation is required to establish comparability of CFI and FMSS results for carers of children.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK. Rachel.Calam@manchester.ac.uk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Calam
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004651:Employment; D019260:Expressed Emotion / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D005639:Frustration; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012923:Social Class; D013060:Speech