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The development and evaluation of the paediatric index of emotional distress (PI-ED)

Authors: Suzy O’Connor, Eamonn Ferguson, Terri Carney, Emma House, Rory C. O’Connor

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 1/2016

Abstract

Purpose

Current measures of anxiety and depression for children and young people (CYP) include somatic symptoms and can be lengthy. They can inflate scores in cases where there is also physical illness, contain potentially distressing symptoms for some settings and be impractical in clinical practice. The present study aimed to develop and evaluate a new questionnaire, the paediatric index of emotional distress (PI-ED), to screen for emotional distress in CYP, modelled on the hospital anxiety and depression scale.

Methods

A school-based sample (n = 1026) was employed to examine the PI-ED’s psychometric properties and a clinical sample of CYP (n = 143) was used to establish its sensitivity and specificity.

Results

Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified a bi-factor model with a general emotional distress factor (‘cothymia’) and anxiety and depression as co-factors. The PI-ED demonstrated good psychometric properties and clinical utility with a cutoff score of 20.

Conclusion

The PI-ED is a brief, valid and reliable clinical screening tool for emotional distress in CYP.

For 7 of these 15 patients there was only data available on either MDD (N = 4) or GAD (N = 3), the data on the other diagnosis category was missing. For the remaining 8 of these 15 participants data were available on both MDD and GAD.

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Title: The development and evaluation of the paediatric index of emotional distress (PI-ED)
Authors: Suzy O’Connor
Eamonn Ferguson
Terri Carney
Emma House
Rory C. O’Connor
Publication date: 01-01-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-015-1134-y

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