Trial reportBMC psychology2021
Psychometric properties of the Brief Problem Monitor (BPM) in children with internalizing symptoms: examining baseline data from a national randomized controlled intervention study.
Trial report in BMC psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02340637 (Coping Kids), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Coping Kids: A Randomized Controlled Study of a New Indicated Preventive Intervention for Children With Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression
Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Annual Research Review: The impact of Covid-19 on psychopathology in children and young people worldwide: systematic review of studies with pre- and within-pandemic data.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Pooled it
- The Relationship between Air Pollution Exposure, Genetic Liability for Schizophrenia, and Brain Outcomes in the ABCD Study.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Article
- Exploring the mediating role of functional connectivity in the association between violence exposure and psychopathology during early adolescence.Brain and cognition · 2026Article
- Article
- Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Internalizing Symptoms in Ethno-Racially Minoritized Youth: Exploring the Influence of Emotion Dysregulation.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Dissociative symptoms in school-aged adopted children who experienced maternal separation and disruptive caregiving in infancy.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Associations of serotonin-related brain morphology in early adolescence with behavioral and emotional problems.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2025Article
- Brief Report: Psychometric Properties of the Brief Problem Monitor-Parent (BPM-P) 6-18 in a Sample of Children Referred to an Autism Specialty Clinic.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Stimulant medications in children with ADHD normalize the structure of brain regions associated with attention and reward.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Provider Adherence to Modular Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents.Administration and policy in mental health · 2024Article
- Short measures of youth psychopathology: psychometric properties of the brief problem monitor (BPM) and the behavior and feelings survey (BFS) in a Norwegian clinical sample.BMC psychology · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundPrevention is essential to reduce the development of symptomology among children and adolescents into disorders, thereby improving public health and reducing costs. Therefore, easily administered screening and early assessment methods with good reliability and validity are necessary to effectively identify children's functioning and how these develop. The Brief Problem Monitor (BPM) is an instrument designed for this purpose. This study examined the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the BPM parent (BPM-P) and teacher (BPM-T) versions, including internal reliability and construct validity at assessing children with internalizing problems.
methodsBaseline data were collected from a national randomized controlled intervention study. Children aged 8-12 years with self-reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depression with one standard deviation above a chosen population's mean were included in this study. Teachers (n = 750) and parents (n = 596) rated children using the BPM-T and BPM-P, respectively. Internal consistency was measured using Cronbach's alpha, and multi-informant agreement between the BPM-P and BPM-T was measured using Spearman's correlations. Construct validity was assessed via confirmatory factor analysis.
resultsInternal consistency was good throughout all domains for both the BPM-P and BPM-T, with a Cronbach's alpha ranging from .763 to .878. Multi-informant agreement between the parents and the teacher was moderate on the externalizing, attention, and total scales and low on the internalizing scale. The model fit for the three-factor structure of the BPM was excellent for the BPM-P and good for the BPM-T.
conclusionsInternal consistency was good, and the original three-factor solution of the BPM-P and BPM-T was confirmed based on our sample of school children at-risk for emotional problems. These promising results indicate that the BPM may be a valid short assessment tool for measuring attentional, behavioral, and internalizing problems in children. Trial registration in Clinical Trials: NCT02340637; June 12, 2014.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.