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Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Screening Inventory-Retrospect (CAPSI-R): a questionnaire for adults concerning child and adolescent mental disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 April 2020

M. Ramklint ,
A-L. von Knorring ,
L. von Knorring  and
L. Ekselius
M. Ramklint*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, University Hospital, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
A-L. von Knorring
Affiliation:
Dept. of Neuroscience, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Hospital, SE-750 17 Uppsala, Sweden
L. von Knorring
Affiliation:
Dept. of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, University Hospital, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
L. Ekselius
Affiliation:
Dept. of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, University Hospital, SE-751 85 Uppsala, Sweden
*
*Correspondence and reprints. E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Ramklint).
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Summary

This study examines the properties of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Screening Inventory-Retrospect, CAPSI-R, a self-report 146-item questionnaire for adults concerning earlier child psychiatric symptoms, comprising both DSM-IV categories and functional impairment. The instrument was mailed to 359 former child psychiatric patients born between 1951 and 1977 (164 of whom responded) and to a matched control group (193 of whom responded). There was good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha ranged between 0.62–0.93, and between 0.76–0.93 after elimination of one item). The lifetime prevalence of a mental disorder was 87.8% in the former patients' without considering impairment and 76.8% when impairment was considered. The corresponding figures for the control group were 49.7% and 10.4%, respectively. When the former patients' CAPSI-R diagnoses (with incorporation of the impairment criterion) were validated against the DSM-IV diagnoses based on information in their medical records, generally, an acceptable sensitivity and specificity were obtained. The overall kappa between CAPSI-R diagnoses and those from medical records was 0.79. The CAPSI-R shows promise for further evaluation and may be useful in recognising child and adolescent mental disorders in adults.

Keywords

adolescent psychiatryCAPSI-Rchild psychiatrymental disordersself-report inventory
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European Psychiatry , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2002 , pp. 61 - 68
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Copyright © Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS. 2002

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