Measurement issues in longitudinal studies of mental health problems in children with neurodevelopmental disorders.

IF 2.7 3区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

BMC Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-18 DOI:10.1186/s40359-025-02450-4

Magnus Ivarsson, Henrik Danielsson, Christine Imms

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Abstract

Purpose: To develop and test an approach for assessing the risk of bias in four measurement-related domains key to the study of mental health problem trajectories in children with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD): (1) conceptual overlap between mental health problems and NDD diagnostic criteria, (2) over-reliance on a single informant, (3) unwarranted omission of the child's perspective, and (4) the use of instruments not designed for or adapted to the population.

Methods: Building upon a previous systematic review, this study established supplementary criteria for assessing the risk of bias domains. Following this, the criteria were applied to measures used in 49 longitudinal studies of mental health problems in children with NDD.

Results: The general risk of bias across domains was rated as high in 57.1% of the 49 included studies. The highest risk of bias was seen in domain four (rated as high in 87.8% of studies) and the lowest in domain three (24.5%).

Conclusions: The risk of bias items enhance our understanding of the quality of the evidence about mental health problem trajectories in children with NDD. The methodological quality of future research can be increased by selecting conceptually clear scales developed for the population - preferably in the form of cognitively accessible self-report scales - and adopting a multi-informant approach.

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目的：开发并测试一种方法，用于评估神经发育障碍（NDD）儿童心理健康问题轨迹研究中四个关键测量相关领域的偏倚风险：(1) 心理健康问题与 NDD 诊断标准之间的概念重叠；(2) 过分依赖单一信息提供者；(3) 毫无理由地忽略儿童视角；(4) 使用并非为该人群设计或根据该人群调整的工具：本研究以之前的系统综述为基础，制定了评估偏倚风险领域的补充标准。随后，将这些标准应用于 49 项关于 NDD 儿童心理健康问题的纵向研究中使用的测量方法：在纳入的 49 项研究中，57.1% 的研究在各个领域的总体偏倚风险被评为高。偏倚风险最高的是领域四（87.8% 的研究被评为高），最低的是领域三（24.5%）：偏倚风险项目提高了我们对 NDD 儿童心理健康问题轨迹证据质量的认识。通过选择为人群开发的概念清晰的量表--最好采用认知易懂的自我报告量表--并采用多信息方法，可以提高未来研究的方法学质量。

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BMC Psychology Psychology-Psychology (all)

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3.90

自引率

2.80%

发文量

265

审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： BMC Psychology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of psychology, human behavior and the mind, including developmental, clinical, cognitive, experimental, health and social psychology, as well as personality and individual differences. The journal welcomes quantitative and qualitative research methods, including animal studies.