@article{ref1,
title="The children's services interview: validity and reliability",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2007",
author="Ford, Tamsin and Hamilton, H. and Dosani, Sabina and Burke, L. and Goodman, Robert",
volume="42",
number="1",
pages="36-49",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The Children Service Interview was designed as a brief measure of service use related to mental health problems in Great Britain. METHOD: We validated the Children's Services Interview against medical records from a sample of 87 children, and assessed test-retest reliability from 25 parents completing two interviews. We examined criterion validity by looking at the service use patterns of children attending clinics for different types of disorders. RESULTS: The Children's Services Interview showed high levels of face validity and moderate or better concordance with medical records as far as contacts were recorded in the case notes. Test-retest reliability was moderate or better apart from contacts with the voluntary sector, teachers, and the number and duration of appointments with some professionals. CONCLUSION: The study suggests the Children's Services Interview can extract moderately valid and reliable data on service use. DECLARATION OF INTEREST: Tamsin Ford was supported by a Wellcome Clinical Training Fellowship in Health Services Research while completing this work.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-006-0092-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-006-0092-9"
}