Talk:Child Mania Rating Scale

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Potentially Confusing Names

There are several different interviews and rating scales that have similar looking names: Young Mania Rating Scale (aka YMRS, or sometimes just MRS) -- one of the oldest, first built as an observational rating scale, 11 items. This was the basis of several adaptations. Parent Young Mania Rating Scale (P-YMRS or PYMRS) -- this was a paper version, designed for a parent or caregiver to read and use to describe their child's behavior. The checklist version also was adapted as a teacher report, (T-YMRS), but the data indicated that it lacked validity -- teacher ratings did not tell apart manic symptoms from attention problems or other disruptive classroom behavior, and teachers do not have an opportunity to observe sleep or some other behaviors that are key parts of mood problems.

The Child Mania Rating Scale (this page) -- originally built as a parent checklist; 21 items long.

If helpful, I can track down the original papers for each pretty quickly. Prof. Eric A. Youngstrom (talk) 19:37, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

Edits on Petersen article

Hello @Etschroe and Jkim94:, thanks for making those edits! I wasn't sure what you meant when you cited the Petersen article from 1971, and I have deleted it. Can you please find the exact citation and link it? Thanks! Ongmianli (talk) 19:27, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Proposed Improvement

Under "limitations" I would like to add: "Although the Child Mania Rating Scale has been shown to be a valid and reliable measure of mania in children, one concern is that its validity might change as the youth becomes an adolescent, and parents have less influence and awareness about the youth's behavior outside of the home."