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Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
Title: | HoNOSCA-D as a measure of the severity of diagnosed mental disorders in children and adolescents : psychometric properties of the German translation |
Authors: | von Wyl, Agnes Toggweiler, Stephan Zollinger, Ruedi |
DOI: | 10.21256/zhaw-3648 10.3389/fpsyt.2017.00186 |
Published in: | Frontiers in Psychiatry |
Volume(Issue): | 8 |
Issue: | 186 |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
ISSN: | 1664-0640 |
Language: | English |
Subjects: | German-language version; HoNOSCA-D; ICD-10; Child; Mental disorder; Psychometrics; Validity; Adolescent |
Subject (DDC): | 616.89: Mental disorders, clinical psychology and psychiatry 618.92: Pediatrics |
Abstract: | The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA), in use worldwide, is a 13-item measure assessing the biopsychosocial severity of mental health problems in children and adolescents. This article introduces the authorized German-language version of HoNOSCA, the HoNOSCA-D, and examines and discusses its psychometric properties based on a clinical sample of 1,533 children and adolescents aged 4;0 to 17;11 years. For the HoNOSCA-D total score (severity of mental health problems), internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha) was 0.63. The discriminative power of the items ranged from 0.07 to 0.44; the average interitem correlation was 0.11. Due to this stochastic independence, calculation of a total severity index is acceptable. Using factor analysis, the principal axis factoring and varimax rotation resulted in a four-factor structure, which with a Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy of 0.684 explained 30.62% of total variance. The convergent correlations with the German-language parent report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire were as expected and showed a medium effect size. Gender and age differences in the HoNOSCA-D total score were small. Regarding the 13 items gender and age differences were negligible to medium. The highest severity was found for schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, followed by affective disorders and social behavior disorders. Overall, validity of HoNOSCA-D was clearly supported. |
URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5832 |
Fulltext version: | Published version |
License (according to publishing contract): | CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International |
Departement: | Applied Psychology |
Organisational Unit: | Psychological Institute (PI) |
Appears in collections: | Publikationen Angewandte Psychologie |
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von Wyl, A., Toggweiler, S., & Zollinger, R. (2017). HoNOSCA-D as a measure of the severity of diagnosed mental disorders in children and adolescents : psychometric properties of the German translation. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 8(186). https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3648
von Wyl, A., Toggweiler, S. and Zollinger, R. (2017) ‘HoNOSCA-D as a measure of the severity of diagnosed mental disorders in children and adolescents : psychometric properties of the German translation’, Frontiers in Psychiatry, 8(186). Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3648.
A. von Wyl, S. Toggweiler, and R. Zollinger, “HoNOSCA-D as a measure of the severity of diagnosed mental disorders in children and adolescents : psychometric properties of the German translation,” Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 8, no. 186, 2017, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-3648.
VON WYL, Agnes, Stephan TOGGWEILER und Ruedi ZOLLINGER, 2017. HoNOSCA-D as a measure of the severity of diagnosed mental disorders in children and adolescents : psychometric properties of the German translation. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2017. Bd. 8, Nr. 186. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-3648
von Wyl, Agnes, Stephan Toggweiler, and Ruedi Zollinger. 2017. “HoNOSCA-D as a Measure of the Severity of Diagnosed Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents : Psychometric Properties of the German Translation.” Frontiers in Psychiatry 8 (186). https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3648.
von Wyl, Agnes, et al. “HoNOSCA-D as a Measure of the Severity of Diagnosed Mental Disorders in Children and Adolescents : Psychometric Properties of the German Translation.” Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 8, no. 186, 2017, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3648.
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