title: A diagnostic interview for acute stress disorder for children and adolescents.
abstract: The goal of this study was to develop a semistructured clinical interview for assessing acute stress disorder (ASD) in youth and test its psychometric properties. Youth (N = 168) with an acute burn or injury were administered the acute stress disorder module of the Diagnostic Interview for Children and Adolescents (DICA-ASD). The DICA-ASD demonstrated strong psychometric properties, including high internal consistency (alpha = .97) and perfect diagnostic interrater agreement (kappa = 1.00). Participants diagnosed with ASD scored significantly higher than those not diagnosed on validated traumatic stress symptomatology measures but not on other symptomatology measures, providing evidence of convergent and discriminant validity. Preliminary evidence supports the reliability and validity of the first semistructured clinical interview for diagnosing ASD in youth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Alisa.Miller@childrens.harvard.edu
authors.forename: Alisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Michelle Bosquet
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Enlow
authors.forename: Wendy
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Reich
authors.forename: Glenn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saxe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D002056:Burns / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D015897:Comorbidity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D015588:Observer Variation; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D040701:Stress Disorders, Traumatic, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology*