TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard, Barbara V
TI  - The PSC-17: Subscale Scores, Reliability, and Factor Structure in a New National Sample
SN  - 0031-4005
PY  - 2016///
KW  - *Neurodevelopmental Disorders/di [Diagnosis]
KW  - *Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
KW  - Adolescent
KW  - Checklist
KW  - Child
KW  - Child, Preschool
KW  - Factor Analysis, Statistical
KW  - Female
KW  - Humans
KW  - Male
KW  - Neurodevelopmental Disorders/ep [Epidemiology]
KW  - Prevalence
KW  - Reproducibility of Results
KW  - United States/ep [Epidemiology]
KW  - MedStar Health Research Institute
KW  - Comparative Study
KW  - Journal Article
N1  - Available online from the MWHC library: 1948 - present, Available in print through MWHC library: 1999 - 2006
N2  - BACKGROUND: The Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSC-17) is a widely used, briefer version of the PSC-35, a parent-completed measure of children's psychosocial functioning. Despite the extensive use of the PSC-17 over the past 15 years there has not been a large-scale replication of the original derivation study; CONCLUSIONS: Fifteen years after the PSC-17 was derived in a large nationally representative outpatient pediatric sample, a new and larger national sample found rates of positive screening, reliability, and factor structure that were comparable. Findings from this study support the continued use of the PSC-17 clinically as a screening tool in pediatric settings and in research; Copyright © 2016 by the American Academy of Pediatrics; METHODS: Data were collected on 80680 pediatric outpatients, ages 4 to 15 years, whose parents filled out the PSC-17 from 2006 to 2015 via the Child Health and Development Interactive System, an electronic system that presents and scores clinical measures; OBJECTIVE: To examine the prevalence of positive screens, reliability, and factor structure of PSC-17 scores in a new national sample and compare them with the derivation sample; RESULTS: The rates of positive screening on the overall PSC-17 (11.6%) and on the internalizing (10.4%) and attention (9.1%) subscales were comparable to rates found in the original sample, although the rate of externalizing problems (10.2%) was lower than in the derivation study. Reliability was high (internal consistency 0.89; test-retest 0.85), and a confirmatory factor analysis provided support for the original 3-factor model
UR  - https://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-0038
ER  -