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Psychometric Properties of Darryl, a Cartoon Based Measure to Assess Community Violence-Related PTSD in Children
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Psychometric Properties of Darryl, a Cartoon Based Measure to Assess Community Violence-Related PTSD in Children

Pamela Geller, Richard Neugebauer, A Possemato, Patricia Walter, E Dummit III and Raul Silva
Psychiatric quarterly, v 78(2), pp 157-168
Jun 2007
PMID: 17351754

Abstract

PTSD Validity Medicine & Public Health Sociology Public Health/Gesundheitswesen Children Reliability Psychiatry Community violence
To examine the reliability and validity of Darryl, a cartoon-based measure of PTSD symptoms and a screening tool for identifying children and adolescents with a PTSD diagnosis.Exposure to community violence, PTSD symptoms and diagnostic status were assessed in a sample of 49 children and adolescents at an urban outpatient psychiatry clinic.Darryl has good internal consistency for the full scale and adequate reliability for each DSM-IV PTSD symptom cluster. Darryl correlates significantly (r = 0.64, P < 0.001) with the most frequently used measure for assessing PTSD in children (CPTSD-RI). As a screening tool, Darryl has excellent sensitivity and specificity in relationship to the KID-SCID.In comparison to other child PTSD measures, Darryl has comparable or better psychometric properties and assesses PTSD symptoms in a more developmentally appropriate manner, especially in the domain of community violence. The value of Darryl as a screening tool remains preliminary given the limited number of diagnosed cases of PTSD in the study sample. Full scale efforts at replication are warranted.

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