Developing a Brief Behavior Rating Scale for Progress Monitoring of Depression in School Settings

Autor/inn/en	Dart, Evan H.; Arora, Prerna; Collins, Tai; Stark, Kevin; Cook, Clayton R.; Duong, Mylien T.; McCarty, Carolyn A.; Doll, Beth
Titel	Developing a Brief Behavior Rating Scale for Progress Monitoring of Depression in School Settings
Quelle	In: Assessment for Effective Intervention, 45 (2020) 3, S.163-172 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-5084
DOI	10.1177/1534508418799179
Schlagwörter	Behavior Rating Scales; Progress Monitoring; Depression (Psychology); Emotional Disturbances; Behavior Disorders; Test Construction; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Children; Pretests Posttests; Psychometrics; Beck Depression Inventory; Childrens Depression Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gefühlsstörung; Testaufbau; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Psychometry; Psychometrie
Abstract	Frequent formative assessment of students' functioning, or progress monitoring, is a critical component of multi-tiered systems of support as data inform data-driven decisions about response to treatment. Progress monitoring tools for students' academic and behavioral functioning are readily available and widely researched; however, despite the documented prevalence of depressive disorders among youth and that schools have been put forth as an ideal location for the delivery of mental health services, there are currently no progress monitoring tools to examine students' response to interventions that target depression. To address this gap, this study sought to develop a progress monitoring assessment of students' depressive symptoms using an empirically informed model for creating "Brief Behavior Rating Scales" (BBRS). Using this model, a four-item BBRS of depressive symptoms (BBRS-D) was created from the item pools of the "Beck Depression Inventory for Youth" (BDI-Y) and "Children's Depression Inventory" (CDI) administered during a treatment study of depression in female youth; the resulting short scale corresponds well to the full-length assessments (i.e., r = 0.65 and r = 0.59); however, the BBRS-D possessed lower than adequate internal consistency (alpha = 0.50) and test-retest reliability (r = 0.56). Limitations and future directions are discussed. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01