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. 2012 Mar 22;8:16–21. doi: 10.2174/1745017901208010016

Table 1.

Agreement Between Clinician-Assigned Diagnoses and Severity Ratings for 100 Participants of the CAMHS North Study

Agreement for Diagnoses Clinician-Rated Severity2 ICC for Severity
N κ (CI) C-GAS Mean (SD) HoNOSCA Mean (SD) C-GAS Single (CI) C-GAS Average (CI) HoNOSCA Single (CI) HoNOSCA Average (CI)
Total sample 1001 56.11 (10.56) 11.09 (5.27) 0.74 (0.66-0.81) 0.92 (0.89-0.94) 0.78 (0.71-0.84) 0.93 (0.91-0.95)
Any diagnosis 70 0.69 (0.66-0.73) 51.26 (7.21) 13.20 (4.54)
Emotional diagnosis3 20 0.70 (0.68-0.75) 53.05 (8.24) 13.24 (4.97)
ADHD/Hyperkinetic diagnosis3 6 0.72 (0.68-0.76) 54.88 (6.29) 10.71 (3.39)
Conduct diagnosis3 19 0.82 (0.76-0.87) 54.47 (5.23) 10.57 (3.32)
Co-morbidity 244 0.70 (0.60-0.82) 46.27 (5.40) 15.89 (3.93)
Other diagnosis3 1 52.75 (-) 12.75 (-)
No diagnosis 30 67.41 (8.27) 6.17 (3.18)
1

Consensus diagnoses.

2

Mean of four clinicians.

3

Single diagnosis without co-morbidity.

4

Emotional diagnosis (N=14), ADHD/hyperkinetic diagnosis (N=16), conduct diagnosis (N=20) and other diagnosis (N=4)

ICC= Intra-class correlation, C-GAS= the Children’s Global Assessment Scale, HoNOSCA= Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents (HoNOSCA) SD=standard deviation, CI=confidence interval.