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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 23.
Published in final edited form as: Jacobs J Psychiatry Behav Sci. 2016 Nov 21;2(2):016.

Table 1.

Reliability for the Study Measures.

A. Pediatric Screening Measures Number of Items Time 1 Time 2 Test-Retest
Pictorial Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PPSC)
Internalizing problems 3 .68 .67 .15
Externalizing problems 3 .59 .62 .17
Attention problems 2 .72 .65 .28+

Social Competence Scale (SCS)
Total scale 12 .81 .87 .36*
Emotion Regulation 6 .66 .77 .22
Prosocial/Communication 6 .75 .79 .46**

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
Total Difficulties Scale 20 .63 .61 .47**
Emotion Symptom Scale 5 .60 .62 .37*
Conduct Problem 5 .39 .60 .33*
Hyperactivity 5 .25 .37 .41**
Peer Problem 5 .42 .15 .35*
Prosocial Scale 5 .48 .52 .31*

B. Family Validation Measures

Household Food Insecurity 3 .85 .86 .25
PHQ-9 Depression 9 .83 .89 .52***
MSPSS-Social Support 4 .80 .73 .40**

Note. SDQ total problem scale includes all items except items from the prosocial scale. Test-retest reliability are based on the Control Sample who have both baseline and follow-up data (n=42).

***

p <.001,

**

p<.01,

*

p<.05.,

+

p<.10