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Standardization of the Denver Developmental Screening Test for children in Seoul: a validity study: Keun Lee; Ewha Med J 2024;47(4):e61. Published online October 31, 2024; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.2024.e61

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the applicability of the Denver Developmental Screening Test (DDST) for Korean children and to develop a Korean version reflecting the developmental characteristics of children in Seoul.

Methods: The DDST was administered to 2,140 children, aged 2 weeks to 6 years and 4 months, in Seoul between July 1985 and September 1986. Participants were recruited from the pediatric departments and counseling centers of several hospitals, excluding those with conditions affecting development. Certain test items were aligned with the Korean context. Inter-examiner reliability was evaluated based on 32 children, while validity was assessed with 30 children using standard developmental scales. The Probit method was employed for statistical analysis.

Results: Children from Seoul exhibited more rapid development than their counterparts in Denver and Tokyo across all four developmental domains: personal-social, fine motor-adaptive, language, and gross motor. Specifically, Korean children displayed earlier development for 10 items within the personal-social domain, eight within fine motor-adaptive, seven in language, and seven in the gross motor domain. This advanced development was consistent across age groups. Inter-examiner reliability averaged 97.3%, and validity tests demonstrated high concordance with established developmental scales.

Conclusion: The rapid development of Korean children may be attributed to close attention paid by parents and early exposure to educational materials. However, the potential role of genetic differences cannot be denied. The occupational distribution of the fathers in the sample did not differ significantly from that of the Seoul population; thus, these findings were applied to establish a standardized Korean DDST.

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A Study on the Item Analysis and the Reliability Evaluation of the Family Screening Test in Korea: Young Sook Park; Ihwa Ŭidae chi 1996;19(3):383-394. Published online July 24, 2015; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1996.19.3.383

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This study aimed at an examination of the item analysis and reliability of the Family screening test which was developed to assess the family's charateristics and the degree of family psychopathology from March 15 to May 30 1996

Methods

The subjects were 467 housewives who were sampled by the random sampling method in Seoul. This family screening test is composed of 11 subscales, the self-report measure, and a 5-point scale.

Results

1) 98 items were selected by the item analysis and reliability evaluation among the original 1999 items which were categorized 11 subscales.

2) The internal consistency of the Cronbach's alpha and the speraman-Brown split-half correlation coefficients were more than 0.70 for all scales exept 8,9,10,11 scales.

3) The reliability coefficients of the Cronbach's alpha and the split-half correlation for 8,9,19,11 scales were less than 0.70 which were evaluated to have the insufficient corrected item-total correlation coefficients.

Conclusions

It was suggested that 8,9,10,11 scales need to the most items for increasing the reliability coefficients through the complemantary work.

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A Study on the Behavior, Adaptability and Intelligence of Child and Adolescents at the Children's Medical Examination Center in a General Hospital: Kyu Wol Yun, Gyoung Hee Kim; Ihwa Ŭidae chi 1996;19(2):165-171. Published online July 24, 2015; DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1996.19.2.165

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Objective

This study was performed to investigate the prevalence of abnormal behavior, ada-ptability and intelligence of child and adolescents and the usefulness of KAS(Korean Attitude System) as a screening method to detect the psychopathology of child and adolescents.

Method

478 child and adolescents were completed the instruments of KAS that focused on development of behavior, adaptability and intelligence at the children's medical examination center.

Results

The most influenced subcategories to the disturbance of behavior of the subjects were leadership, cooperation, and emotion (in order). The preference of adaptability was high in the fields of literature, law, technology, medicine and sociology. The mean I.Q. of the subjects was high average and not different in both sex. The subjects with below average of I.Q. were three cases(0.6%) and the two of them were boderline and only one case was mild mental retardation. The total number of patients referred to the department of psychiatry was eight cases(1.7%) and revealed the disturbance of behavior, affect, and thought.

Conclusions

Finally the authors concluded that KAS test performed at the children's medical examination center was useful primary screening method to detect the psychopathology of child and adolescents.