Measurement bias in caregiver-report of early childhood behavior problems across demographic factors in an ECHO-wide diverse sample.
Shuting ZhengMaxwell MansolfMonica McGrathMarie L ChurchillTraci A BekelmanPatricia A BrennanAmy E MargolisSara S NozadiTheresa M BastainAmy J ElliottKaja Z LeWinnJulie A HofheimerLeslie D LeveBrandon RennieEmily ZimmermanCarmen A MarableCindy T McEvoyChang LiuAlexis SullivanTracey J WoodruffSamiran GhoshBennett LeventhalAssiamira FerraraJohnnye LewisSomer Bishopnull nullPublished in: JCPP advances (2023)
The CBCL/1.5-5, a caregiver-report measure of early childhood behavior problems, showed bias across demographic groups. Robust item sets with less DIF can measure Internalizing and Total Problems equally as well as the full item sets, with slightly lower reliability for Externalizing, and can be crosswalked to the metric of the full item set, enabling calculation of normed T scores based on more robust item sets.