Further Measures of the Psychometric Properties of the Children's Global Assessment Scale
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of General Psychiatry
- Vol. 44 (9) , 821-4
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1987.01800210069011
Abstract
The Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS), a measure of overall severity of disturbance, is an adaptation of the Global Assessment Scale for adults. Data obtained on the CGAS during a pilot study in Puerto Rico demonstrate high interrater reliability and both concurrent and discriminant validity. A discriminant function was generated that highly correlates with other measures of impairment. Use of the CGAS can be of heuristic value to complement other methods of diagnostic categorization.Keywords
This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
- Reliability of Child Diagnosis in a Hispanic SampleJournal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1987
- Empirical Corroboration of Attention Deficit DisorderJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1984
- A Reliability Study of the Mental Health Assessment Form for School‐Age ChildrenJournal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 1978
- A Teacher Rating Scale for Use in Drug Studies with ChildrenAmerican Journal of Psychiatry, 1969