Title

The Relations among Measurements of Informant Discrepancies within a Multisite Trial of Treatments for Childhood Social Phobia

Authors

Authors

A. De Los Reyes; C. A. Alfano;D. C. Beidel

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Abbreviated Journal Title

J. Abnorm. Child Psychol.

Keywords

Attribution Bias Context Model; Efficacy; Informant discrepancies; Intervention; Range of Possible Changes Model; RANDOMIZED CLINICAL-TRIAL; EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS; TREATING; ANXIETY DISORDERS; POSSIBLE CHANGES MODEL; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; CHILDREN; ADOLESCENTS; PARENT; AGREEMENT; YOUTH; Psychology, Clinical; Psychology, Developmental

Abstract

Discrepancies between informants' reports of children's behavior are robustly observed in clinical child research and have important implications for interpreting the outcomes of controlled treatment trials. However, little is known about the basic psychometric properties of these discrepancies. This study examined the relation between parent-child reporting discrepancies on measures of child social phobia symptoms, administered before and after treatment for social phobia. Participants included a clinic sample of 81 children (7-16 years old [M = 11.75, SD = 2.57]; 39 girls, 42 boys) and their parents receiving treatment as part of a multisite controlled trial. Pretreatment parent-child reporting discrepancies predicted parent-child discrepancies at posttreatment, and these relations were not better accounted for by the severity of the child's pretreatment primary diagnosis. Further, treatment responder status moderated this relation: Significant relations were identified for treatment non-responders and not for treatment responders. Overall, findings suggest that informant discrepancies can be reliably employed to measure individual differences over the course of controlled treatment trials. These data provide additional empirical support for recent work suggesting that informant discrepancies can meaningfully inform understanding of treatment response as well as variability in treatment outcomes.

Journal Title

Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology

Volume

38

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

395

Last Page

404

WOS Identifier

WOS:000275649000009

ISSN

0091-0627

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