APPLICABILITY OF RUTTER-B SCALE ON INDIAN POPULATION

Applicability of Rutter-B Scale for completion by teachers was assessed on a representative sample of 963 school children between the ages of 4-11 yrs. The findings revealed that at the recommended cut-off score of 9, the scale has low sensitivity (51.8%) and very low specificity (34.1%). Concordanc...

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Autores principales: Malhotra, Savita, Arun, Priti, Kohli, Adarsh
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407911
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description Applicability of Rutter-B Scale for completion by teachers was assessed on a representative sample of 963 school children between the ages of 4-11 yrs. The findings revealed that at the recommended cut-off score of 9, the scale has low sensitivity (51.8%) and very low specificity (34.1%). Concordance between assessment by Rutter-B Scale and clinical assessment to pick up psychiatric disorder was 33.6%. Limitations of the scale as a screening instrument in child psychiatry epidemiology are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29570062011-03-15 APPLICABILITY OF RUTTER-B SCALE ON INDIAN POPULATION Malhotra, Savita Arun, Priti Kohli, Adarsh Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Applicability of Rutter-B Scale for completion by teachers was assessed on a representative sample of 963 school children between the ages of 4-11 yrs. The findings revealed that at the recommended cut-off score of 9, the scale has low sensitivity (51.8%) and very low specificity (34.1%). Concordance between assessment by Rutter-B Scale and clinical assessment to pick up psychiatric disorder was 33.6%. Limitations of the scale as a screening instrument in child psychiatry epidemiology are discussed. Medknow Publications 2000 /pmc/articles/PMC2957006/ /pubmed/21407911 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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APPLICABILITY OF RUTTER-B SCALE ON INDIAN POPULATION
title APPLICABILITY OF RUTTER-B SCALE ON INDIAN POPULATION
title_full APPLICABILITY OF RUTTER-B SCALE ON INDIAN POPULATION
title_fullStr APPLICABILITY OF RUTTER-B SCALE ON INDIAN POPULATION
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title_short APPLICABILITY OF RUTTER-B SCALE ON INDIAN POPULATION
title_sort applicability of rutter-b scale on indian population
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2957006/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21407911
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