title: Child behavior check list and Korean personality inventory for children with functional visual loss.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the clinical psychiatric characteristics of children with the main complaint of functional visual loss, their behavior and personality were evaluated by the means of the Korean child behavior check list (K-CBCL), and the Korean personality inventory for children (KPI-C).
  
  
  METHODS
  The evaluation was carried out by the K-CBCL and the KPI-C, the domestically standardized tools, with 20 child subjects suspected of functional visual loss, among the patients who visited our hospital, between August, 2005 and December, 2012. The control group included 160 children in general schools of the same region.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The 20 patients whose main complaint was functional visual loss were diagnosed as having a functional visual disorder. The child patient group showed a higher score for the K-CBCL and KPI-C sub-scales of somatic complaints, social problems, aggressive behavior, internalizing problems, externalizing problems, total behavioral problems, somatization and hyperactivity, than that of the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results of the K-CBCL and KPI-C tests among children with functional visual loss, were significantly different from those of the normal control group. This result suggested that psychological factors may influence children with a main complaint of functional visual loss.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Dankook University , Cheonan , Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sung Eun
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Kyung
authors.forename: Sang Mi
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Myung Ho
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lim
mesh_terms: D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology*; D014787:Vision Tests
keywords: Functional visual loss; Korean personality inventory; child behavior check list; children