Reliability and Validity of a Digital Version of a Structured Interview for Children and Adolescents (Kinder-eDIPS)

Ruhr University of Bochum

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological Disease

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Diagnostisches Interview bei psychischen Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter, digitale Version (Kinder-eDIPS)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06011642

737

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Kinder-eDIPS is a digital version of the Kinder-DIPS (Diagnostisches Interview bei Psychischen Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter), a structured interview to assess a variety of the most frequent psychological disorders in children and adolescents. In this study, the reliability, validity and acceptance of the Kinder-eDIPS will be tested in both a clinical and a non-clinical sample.

Full description

The Kinder-eDIPS is a digital version of the Kinder-DIPS (Diagnostisches Interview bei Psychischen Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter), a structured interview to assess a variety of the most frequent psychological disorders in children and adolescents. The interview is administered by trained clinicians with children/adolescents and one of their primary carers. The reliability, validity and acceptance of former versions of the Kinder-DIPS (Kinder-DIPS for DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and DSM-III) have been studied. The aim of the present study is to test the reliability, validity and acceptance of the newly developed digital version of the Kinder-DIPS, the Kinder-eDIPS, in both a clinical and a non-clinical sample.

Enrollment: 205 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• sufficient knowledge of the German language

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

205 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical sample

Description:

Participants will be recruited from families in Bochum who receive treatment or wait for the treatment to begin at the Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum (FBZ; outpatient treatment center).

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Diagnostisches Interview bei psychischen Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter, digitale Version (Kinder-eDIPS)

Nonclinical sample

Description:

Participants will be recruited from families in Bochum who take part in experiments and studies at the Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at the Ruhr-University. The Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology maintains a database of families interested in participating in research.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Diagnostisches Interview bei psychischen Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter, digitale Version (Kinder-eDIPS)