title: [Parent version of the German Children's Depression Inventory (DIKJ) - reliability and validity in a clinical sample].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The psychometric properties and crossinformant agreement of the adapted parent version of the German Child Depression Inventory (DIKJ) were assessed in a clinical sample with various psychiatric diagnoses.
  
  
  METHODS
  129 parents were included in the study, each with a child or adolescent (7 to 18 years old) in outpatient psychotherapy. In 80 cases both parent and self-report was available. Participants filled out the DIKJ as well as the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL)/Youth Self Report (YSR) at the beginning of therapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The parent version of the DIKJ proved to be reliable as well as convergently and divergently valid: moderate to high correlations with the internalising sacles of the CBCL and low correlations with the externalising scale of the CBCL. The findings were similar for both parent and self-ratings. Intraclass correlations between parent and child ratings were moderate. DIKJ scores above the cut-off corresponded with the diagnostic status from the K-SADS diagnostic interview in 59% of the self-reports and 57% of the parent reports.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The DIKJ parent version shows promising reliability and validity in a clinical setting. The DIKJ may be used as a biperspective instrument to screen for depressive symptoms. However, the cut-off should be re-examined.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, -psychotherapie und -psychosomatik, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf. k.weitkamp@uke.de
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weitkamp
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Romer
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rosenthal
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wiegand-Grefe
authors.forename: Judith K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Daniels
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015588:Observer Variation; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014175:Translating