PMID- 15490275
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20050128
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1018-8827 (Print)
IS  - 1018-8827 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 5
DP  - 2004 Oct
TI  - Global assessment of psychosocial functioning in child and adolescent psychiatry. 
      A review of three unidimensional scales (CGAS, GAF, GAPD).
PG  - 273-86
AB  - Global assessment of functioning represents an important aspect of assessment in 
      clinical practice and research. It can help identify persons in need of 
      psychiatric treatment, have predictive value and measure change over time, 
      including treatment effects. This review examines publications concerning 
      development, psychometric properties and usefulness of three scales for children: 
      Axis-VI in ICD-10 Global Assessment of Psychosocial Disability (GAPD), Children's 
      Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) and Axis-V in DSM-IV Global Assessment of 
      Functioning Scale (GAF). It is based on literature searches in PubMed and 
      PsycInfo (1977-2003), and screening of Scandinavian and English textbooks on 
      child psychiatry. The three scales differ in theoretical guidelines, descriptions 
      of codes/anchor points and psychometric aspects. CGAS has been evaluated in 69 
      papers and 33 have been published on GAF used for children. The one paper 
      comparing GAPD and CGAS found both scales sufficiently reliable for clinical 
      practice. Reliability of CGAS and GAF has been found to vary from fair to 
      substantial, depending on raters, training and diagnostic groups. International 
      consensus for the use of one scale for global assessment of functioning for 
      children 4-18 years would improve reliability in clinical practice and ease 
      comparisons of studies across countries. A training programme would assist in 
      this.
FAU - Schorre, Bjorg Elisabeth Haugen
AU  - Schorre BE
AD  - Outpatient Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Bogerud, BUP Bogerud, 
      Postbox 23 Bogerud, 0621 Oslo, Norway. bjorge.haugen.schorre@ulleval.no
FAU - Vandvik, Inger Helene
AU  - Vandvik IH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
PL  - Germany
TA  - Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
JT  - European child & adolescent psychiatry
JID - 9212296
SB  - IM
MH  - Adaptation, Psychological
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - *Adolescent Psychiatry
MH  - Child
MH  - *Child Psychiatry
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Diagnosis, Differential
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Disorders/*diagnosis
MH  - *Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
RF  - 127
EDAT- 2004/10/19 09:00
MHDA- 2005/01/29 09:00
CRDT- 2004/10/19 09:00
PHST- 2003/11/24 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2004/10/19 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2005/01/29 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2004/10/19 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s00787-004-0390-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2004 Oct;13(5):273-86. doi: 
      10.1007/s00787-004-0390-2.