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Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children
BACKGROUND: Learning disorder (LD) is a common cause for poor academic performance among school students. Poor detection of this may be due to lack of proper validated diagnostic and screening tools, leading to considerable difficulty for affected children and their families. This study aims to vali...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5733420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284803 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_29_17 |
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author | Vidyadharan, Varsha Tharayil, Harish M. George, Biju |
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description | BACKGROUND: Learning disorder (LD) is a common cause for poor academic performance among school students. Poor detection of this may be due to lack of proper validated diagnostic and screening tools, leading to considerable difficulty for affected children and their families. This study aims to validate a screening tool developed by us among students with poor scholastic performance. It is an easy-to-use tool that can be used by parents or teachers. Preliminary validation was done earlier using case–control design among 100 students, and the results were encouraging. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A tool with 26 items was applied in 365 schoolchildren with poor scholastic performance in Calicut district. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was done to find area under curve (AUC) and to obtain the sensitivity and specificity at the predefined cutoff score ≥10. RESULTS: ROC analysis showed AUC of 0.93 for differentiating LD cases against the normal children. The optimum cutoff was taken as score ≥10 which has a sensitivity and specificity of 84.7% and 100%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The new tool showed promising validity. |
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spelling | pubmed-57334202017-12-28 Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children Vidyadharan, Varsha Tharayil, Harish M. George, Biju Indian J Psychol Med Original Article BACKGROUND: Learning disorder (LD) is a common cause for poor academic performance among school students. Poor detection of this may be due to lack of proper validated diagnostic and screening tools, leading to considerable difficulty for affected children and their families. This study aims to validate a screening tool developed by us among students with poor scholastic performance. It is an easy-to-use tool that can be used by parents or teachers. Preliminary validation was done earlier using case–control design among 100 students, and the results were encouraging. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A tool with 26 items was applied in 365 schoolchildren with poor scholastic performance in Calicut district. Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis was done to find area under curve (AUC) and to obtain the sensitivity and specificity at the predefined cutoff score ≥10. RESULTS: ROC analysis showed AUC of 0.93 for differentiating LD cases against the normal children. The optimum cutoff was taken as score ≥10 which has a sensitivity and specificity of 84.7% and 100%, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: The new tool showed promising validity. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5733420/ /pubmed/29284803 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_29_17 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Psychiatric Society 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Vidyadharan, Varsha Tharayil, Harish M. George, Biju Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children |
title | Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children |
title_full | Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children |
title_fullStr | Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children |
title_full_unstemmed | Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children |
title_short | Validation of a Screening Tool for Learning Disorder in Children |
title_sort | validation of a screening tool for learning disorder in children |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5733420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29284803 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/IJPSYM.IJPSYM_29_17 |
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