title: Children's Depression Screener (ChilD-S): development and validation of a depression screening instrument for children in pediatric care.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to develop and validate the Children's Depression Screener (ChilD-S) for use in pediatric care. In two pediatric samples, children aged 9-12 (N(I) = 200; N(II) = 246) completed an explorative item pool (subsample I) and a revised item pool (subsample II). Diagnostic accuracy of each of the 22 items from the revised pool was evaluated in order to select the best items for the brief instrument ChilD-S. Areas under the curve (AUCs) of the revised item pool and the ChilD-S were compared. A diagnostic interview, the Kinder-DIPS, served as gold standard. For the purpose of screening for depressive disorders in children, the eight-item ChilD-S (AUC = 0.97) performed just as well as the revised 22-item pool (AUC = 0.94). For the ChilD-S the optimal cut-off point of ≥11 yielded a sensitivity of 0.91 and a specificity of 0.89. The ChilD-S shows high potential for depression screening of children in pediatric care.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Frühe
authors.forename: Antje-Kathrin
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Allgaier
authors.forename: Kathrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pietsch
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Baethmann
authors.forename: Jochen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peters
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kellnar
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heep
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Burdach
authors.forename: Dietrich
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: von Schweinitz
authors.forename: Gerd
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Schulte-Körne
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results