%0 Journal Article
%T Validation of short instruments assessing parental and caregivers¡¯ perceptions on child health and development for personalized prevention
%A Bernice Doove
%A Frans Feron
%A Jim van Os
%A Jolien Feron
%A Marjan Drukker
%J Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry
%@ 1461-7021
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1359104518822673
%X Systematically exploring parental as well as other caregivers¡¯ concerns is a main component in preventive child health care (PCHC) for family-centred practice and personalized health care. To facilitate communication and early identification of emerging mental health problems, a PCHC toolkit based on short instruments was developed. This article investigates the reliability and validity of (1) two visual analogue scales (VAS) to assess parent-reported ¡®parenting¡¯ and ¡®child behaviour¡¯, (2) a professional caregiver-reported VAS to assess ¡®child competence¡¯ and (3) the parents¡¯ evaluation of developmental status (PEDS) in Dutch PCHC. Parents as well as child care, kindergarten and preschool teachers completed instruments in a community-based sample of children (N£¿=£¿346) aged 3£¿years at baseline. The three VAS and PEDS were associated with standardized questionnaires assessing the same constructs. Overall predictive accuracy showed: good to excellent for ¡®parenting¡¯ VAS, fair to good for ¡®child behaviour¡¯ VAS and poor for ¡®child competence¡¯ VAS. The PEDS, ¡®parenting¡¯ VAS and ¡®child behaviour¡¯ VAS, demonstrated high sensitivity at various cut-off points of index test and reference standard. At follow-up, approximately 1£¿year later, results were similar. Although the ¡®child competence¡¯ VAS scored lower on one aspect of validity, the PEDS and the different VAS are reliable, valid and useful as brief monitoring tools in daily Dutch PCHC practice
%K Child mental health
%K personalized preventive child health care
%K screening
%K short instruments
%K PEDS
%K visual analogue scale
%K validation
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359104518822673