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New CHADIS Questionnaires Release Announcement
Dear CHADIS Users,
We are very pleased to announce the release of a selection of new and
revised tools for use within CHADIS. Included with some of these tools
is a new CHADIS feature -- the capacity to administer questionnaires in
multiple languages! Each of our new and revised tools is described below:
| New CHADIS Tools |
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The Ages & Stages Questionnaires® (ASQ)
The availability of this well-known and widely-used screening
system within CHADIS represents an exciting addition to our product,
and one we know you will find useful in your routine practice. Available
in both English and Spanish, the ASQ includes 19 questionnaires
covering ages 4 months through 5 years. Each questionnaire assesses
five domains: communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving,
and personal-social. CHADIS yields results for each of these domains
when an at-risk score is determined, and also notifies the clinician
of questionnaire results that are within normal limits. |
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NICHQ Vanderbilt Assessment Follow-Up
(Parent Informant and Teacher Informant versions)
Intended for use in tracking ADHD symptomatology over time, these questionnaires
highlight both symptom scores (degree of ADHD symptomatology) and performance
scores (academic and social). As an added feature, we have implemented
several new items to allow respondents to describe 'other' symptomatology
not included in the original Vanderbilt measures. This represents an "individualized
behavior report card" of "target symptoms". |
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Pediatric Symptom Checklist--Youth
Report (Y-PSC)
Developed as a youth-self-report measure of emotional and behavioral symptoms
among adolescents ages 11 and up, this 35-item measure is an important
addition to the parent-report PSC already available in CHADIS. This tool
is available in both English and Spanish. |
Don't forget that to begin using any of these new tools you will
need to modify your auto-assignments and indicate your preference
for age range (within the range covered by the test) and type
of visit for each. The ASQ does require that individual age range
questionnaires be added separately. We would be glad to help
with these auto-assignments if you email your requests to us.
| Revisions to Existing
CHADIS Tools |
| Several existing CHADIS
tools have been improved as described below. The modified
versions of these questionnaires are now available for
your use. You do not need to take any separate action to
access these revised versions; simply access them as you
did the previous versions. Any existing patient results
from the questionnaires' previous versions are also still
accessible to you and will never change. That is, old questionnaire
results still reference the correct versions of these questionnaires. |
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Modified Checklist for Autism
in Toddlers (M-CHAT)
This tool is now available in Spanish as well as English. In addition,
in reviewing the M-CHAT, we became aware that our inclusion of the 'not
sure' response option was inconsistent with the published versions of this
measure. We have therefore removed this response option. Finally, while
making these revisions, we also took the opportunity to add two new capabilities
to the M-CHAT. The M-CHAT now includes a diagnosis that informs the clinician
of results that are within normal limits, as well as a diagnosis that informs
the clinician when the target child's age is outside the validated range
for the M-CHAT. These functions will facilitate your documentation of completed
M-CHAT questionnaires, and will also highlight for you those cases in which
a respondent, for whatever reason, completed a questionnaire regarding
a child whose age is not within the M-CHAT's validated range. |
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Partner Violence Screen (PVS)
As with the M-CHAT, we became aware that our inclusion of the 'not sure'
response option was inconsistent with the published version of this tool.
This response option has therefore been removed. |
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NICHQ Vanderbilt Assessment
Scales (Initial Parent and Teacher versions)
In implementing the Vanderbilt Follow-Up questionnaires described above,
we became aware that the total symptom score presented in the previous
versions of the initial questionnaires was misleading. These scoring systems
have now been revised for both the Teacher Informant and Parent Informant
versions included in CHADIS. The 'other' items described above have also
been implemented in these initial Vanderbilt questionnaires. |
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McMaster Family Assessment
Device, General Functioning Subscale
This tool is now available in Spanish as well as English. |
You can check out the growing family of pre-visit questionnaires
now available through CHADIS on our website (www.childhealthcare.org).
Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to
contact one of us.
Best Regards,
The CHADIS Team |
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