[A global scale for assessment of the family environment].

Eine Global-Skala zur Erfassung des familiären Umfeldes.

Publisher: Verlag Hans Huber Country of Publication: Switzerland NLM ID: 9801717 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 1422-4917 (Print) Linking ISSN: 14224917 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: Bern ; Seattle : Verlag Hans Huber, c1996-

Cross-Cultural Comparison* ; Language* ; Social Environment*; Family/*psychology ; Mental Disorders/*psychology ; Personality Assessment/*statistics & numerical data; Adolescent ; Adolescent Psychiatry/education ; Child ; Child Psychiatry/education ; Day Care, Medical ; Family Therapy ; Humans ; Inservice Training ; Mental Disorders/diagnosis ; Observer Variation ; Psychometrics/statistics & numerical data ; Reproducibility of Results ; Statistics as Topic ; Switzerland

Objectives: Reliability of the Global Family Environment Scale (GFES) which has been developed in Australia and translated into German.
Method: Comparison of ratings and reliability of written case vignettes by international raters and clinicians of the own institution. Assessment of interrater-reliability of clinical cases before and after group trainings with introduction of the manual and discussion of written case vignettes.
Results: The ratings of seven training case vignettes were rather similar by clinicians from Zurich and in an international study by the Australian authors. In the same way interrater agreements were similar in the two studies and satisfying. In the present study a single training session in comparison to reading the manual did not result in higher interrater agreement.
Conclusions: The existing psychometric properties and the availability of a translation represent important prerequisites for the applicability of the GFES in the German-speaking countries.

Date Created: 20040303 Date Completed: 20040707 Latest Revision: 20151119

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10.1024/1422-4917.32.1.29

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