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Reliability of Clinical Ratings by Trainee Child Psychiatrists: A Research Note
Author(s) -
Goodman Robert,
Simonoff Emily
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb00331.x
Subject(s) - psychology , psychopathology , reliability (semiconductor) , inter rater reliability , psychiatry , clinical psychology , rating scale , developmental psychology , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics
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.