Does a parent-report measure of behavioral problems enhance prediction of conversion to psychosis in clinical high-risk adolescents?

ABSTRACT: Recent research on risk for psychosis has focused on youth who manifest subclinical signs that are often associated with the prodrome to psychosis. Standardized measures of prodromal symptoms have been shown to significantly enhance prediction of risk for conversion to an Axis I psychotic disorder. In the present study, a widely used parent-report measure of behavioral problems, the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) was administered to examine the clinical and diagnostic utility of the measure as an adjunctive screening instrument in the identification of at-risk youth. The CBCL, the Structured Interview for Prodromal Syndromes (SIPS), and other diagnostic measures were administered at baseline and at one year follow-up assessments to adolescents (n=41) at clinical high-risk for the developm

SUBMITTER: Simeonova DI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3139757 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature