Sinhala translation of child behaviour checklist: validity and reliability.

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorSenaratna, B C Ven_US
dc.contributor.authorPerera, Hen_US
dc.contributor.authorFonseka, Pen_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-28T05:05:36Z
dc.date.available2009-05-28T05:05:36Z
dc.date.issued2008-06-06en_US
dc.descriptionThe Ceylon Medical Journal.en_US
dc.description.abstractOBJECTIVE: To translate the child behaviour checklist (CBCL) into Sinhala and validate it for assessment of mental health status of children aged 5-10 years. DESIGN AND SETTING: Translation/back-translation method was used to translate the English CBCL into Sinhala. Each item in the Sinhala CBCL (CBCL-S) was rated by mental health professionals to determine semantics, content, and conceptual validity types. To ascertain criterion validity, total scores obtained for CBCL-S by administering it to parents or parent surrogates of 49 girls and 80 boys aged 5-10 years attending the specialist psychiatry clinics and 69 boys and 69 girls in the same age group from the community were compared with clinical diagnoses by a child psychiatrist. Receiver operator characteristic curves were drawn to obtain the cut-off points in CBCL-S for boys and girls separately. RESULTS: Semantics, content, and conceptual and criterion validity of CBCL-S were satisfactory. At the cut-off level of 39, CBCL-S had a sensitivity of 90% and a specificity of 88% for boys and a sensitivity of 89% and a specificity of 92% for girls. Internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and inter-interviewer reliability of CBCL-S were satisfactory. INTERPRETATION: CBCL-S is a valid and reliable instrument to measure mental health status of Sinhalese children aged 5-10 years in Sri Lanka.en_US
dc.description.affiliationCommunity Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. chamaravs@yahoo.comen_US
dc.identifier.citationSenaratna BC, Perera H, Fonseka P. Sinhala translation of child behaviour checklist: validity and reliability. The Ceylon Medical Journal. 2008 Jun; 53(2): 40-4en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://imsear.searo.who.int/handle/123456789/47922
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.source.urihttps://www.infolanka.com/CMJhome/en_US
dc.source.urihttps://www.sljol.info/index.php/CMJ/article/view/230/238en_US
dc.subject.meshChilden_US
dc.subject.meshChild Behavioren_US
dc.subject.meshHealth Status Indicatorsen_US
dc.subject.meshHumansen_US
dc.subject.meshLanguageen_US
dc.subject.meshMental Healthen_US
dc.subject.meshSensitivity and Specificityen_US
dc.titleSinhala translation of child behaviour checklist: validity and reliability.en_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.typeResearch Support, Non-U.S. Gov'ten_US
dc.typeValidation Studiesen_US
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
cmj_2008v53n2p40.pdf
Size:
181.87 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Journal article
Download
Collections
Ceylon Medical Journal