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Table 2 Instruments used for the assessment of the psychiatric, behavioral and environmental domains of the 7-year-old children participating in the Danish High Risk and Resilience Study-VIA 7

From: The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study – VIA 7 - a cohort study of 520 7-year-old children born of parents diagnosed with either schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or neither of these two mental disorders

Domains

Outcomes

Child

Caregiver

Teacher

Emotional and psychiatric symptoms

Psychiatric symptoms, incl. depression, anxiety, psychotic symptoms, thought disorders, PLIKS (psychosis like symptoms), obsessive-compulsive symptoms, eating disorders, sleep disturbances, self harming behavior and traumatic life events

K-SADS-PL [68]

K-SADS-PL [68]

TRF (Teachers Rating Form of Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL [69])

CBCL (Child Behavior Checklist [69])

 

Attention/hyperactivity

 

ADHD-Rating Scale [72]

ADHD-Rating Scale [72]

 

Affect regulation/flexibility

CEMS (Children’s Emotion Management Scale, [80])

BRIEF (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function [87])

BRIEF (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function [87])

 

Anxiety

STAIC (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children [81])

  
 

Self-esteem and quality of life

Kidscreen-27 ([78] and ‘Sådan er jeg’ (‘This is how I am’ [113])

  
 

Stress

Hair test for cortisol

  
 

Subjective stress

Items from DLSS (Daily Life Stressor Scale [79])

  

Behavior

Social functioning

 

SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [75])

SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [75])

 

do

 

Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales –II [77]

 
 

Autism spectrum traits

 

SRS (Social Responsiveness Scale [76])

SRS (Social Responsiveness Scale [76])

 

Attachment constructs

SSAP (Story Stem Assessment Profile [108])

CHQ (Caregivers Helplessness Questionnaire [107])

 

Environment and emotional climate

Stimulation and support in actual rearing environment

HOME Inventory [104]

 HOME Inventory [104]

 
 

Interaction with caregiver

Tangram Puzzle [106]

Tangram Puzzle [106]

 
 

Perceived support from social network (adults)

 

SPS (Social Provision Scale [109])

 
 

Expressed emotions

 

FMSS (Five Minute Speech Sample [105])