ABSTRACT

Background: The Nisonger Child Behavior Rating Form (NCBRF) allows for the assessment of frequency and severity of challenging behaviours of individuals with ID with one combined rating. However, frequency and severity rating of challenging behaviours may be in disagreement. Therefore, the efficacy of frequency and severity independent ratings for each NCBRF item was investigated.

Method: Professional caregivers of 105 individuals with ID completed the NCBRF with separate frequency and severity ratings and the Vineland-II.

Results: Magnitudes of correlation coefficients between frequency and severity rating of each NCBRF item were mostly trivial, small, or medium. However, the differences between the magnitude of the corresponding correlation coefficients of frequency and severity rating of each NCBRF item when related to the Vineland-II adaptive behaviour dimensions were rarely statistically significantly.

Conclusions: Despite the need for further comparisons with other challenging behaviour scales, the separate use of frequency and severity ratings seems to be useful.

摘要

背景：尼森格儿童行为评定表 (NCBRF) 允许使用一种综合评定来评估具有智力障碍的个体的挑战性行为的频率和严重程度。然而，挑战性行为的频率和严重性评级可能存在分歧。因此，研究了每个 NCBRF 项目的频率和严重性独立评级的功效。

方法： 105 名 ID 个人的专业护理人员完成了 NCBRF 和 Vineland-II 的单独频率和严重程度评级。

结果：每个 NCBRF 项目的频率和严重程度等级之间的相关系数的大小大多是微不足道的、小的或中等的。然而，当与 Vineland-II 适应性行为维度相关时，每个 NCBRF 项目的频率和严重性等级的相应相关系数的大小之间的差异很少有统计学意义。

结论：尽管需要与其他具有挑战性的行为量表进一步比较，但单独使用频率和严重程度评级似乎是有用的。