Reliability of Clinical Ratings by Trainee Child Psychiatrists: A Research Note
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Vol. 32 (3) , 551-555
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb00331.x
Abstract
Trainee and senior psychiatrists separately rated the symptoms and signs of 14 consecutive referrals to a child psychiatric team. Inter-rater reliabilities ranged from 0.61 to 0.94 on four clinically relevant dimensions of psychopathology. Aggregating all items, trainees' ratings identified whether or not items were definitely present with greater than 95% accuracy, as judged by a senior psychiatrist's ratings and a review of the case notes. This pilot study suggests that trainees' ratings can be of acceptable reliability for research purposes.Keywords
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