Short form of the developmental behaviour checklist

Am J Ment Retard. 2007 Jan;112(1):31-9. doi: 10.1352/0895-8017(2007)112[31:SFOTDB]2.0.CO;2.

Abstract

A 24-item short form of the 96-item Developmental Behaviour Checklist was developed to provide a brief measure of Total Behaviour Problem Score for research purposes. The short form Developmental Behaviour Checklist (DBC-P24) was chosen for low bias and high precision from among 100 randomly selected item sets. The DBC-P24 was developed from epidemiological data in the first three waves of the Australian Child to Adult Development study, and cross validated for groups with autism, fragile X, Prader-Willi, and Williams in this longitudinal study and in cross sectional Dutch, English, and Finnish samples of young people with intellectual disability. The DBC-P24 has low bias and high precision in cross-validation samples and achieves high sensitivity and specificity to full DBC-P based caseness decisions.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Autistic Disorder / diagnosis
  • Autistic Disorder / psychology
  • Child
  • Child Behavior Disorders / diagnosis*
  • Child Behavior Disorders / psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Female
  • Finland
  • Fragile X Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Fragile X Syndrome / psychology
  • Humans
  • Intellectual Disability / diagnosis*
  • Intellectual Disability / psychology
  • Longitudinal Studies
  • Male
  • Netherlands
  • New South Wales
  • Personality Assessment / statistics & numerical data*
  • Prader-Willi Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Prader-Willi Syndrome / psychology
  • Psychometrics / statistics & numerical data
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Williams Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Williams Syndrome / psychology