Psychological Outcome in Young Survivors of Severe TBI: A Cross-Informant Comparison

Table 4

Comparison of self-rating and proxy-rating.

Scale	Characteristics	Patient; mean -score (SD)	Significant other; mean -score (SD)	Difference between the mean two-tailed values	Intraclass correlation (ICC)	value of ICC	Level of clinical significance
Syndrome scales	Anxiety and depression	55.40 (6.73)	55.00 (5.62)	0.762	0.573	0.003	Fair
	Withdrawal	56.60 (8.57)	55.00 (6.95)	0.376	0.492	0.010	Fair
	Somatic complaints	55.55 (5.35)	55.50 (5.41)	0.948	0.813	<0.001	Excellent
	Thought problems	53.70 (6.34)	54.40 (5.74)	0.654	0.370	0.046	Poor
	Attention problems	56.80 (5.60)	57.55 (4.99)	0.541	0.495	0.010	Fair
	Aggressive behavior	53.45 (5.57)	54.15 (4.67)	0.423	0.727	<0.001	Good
	Rule-breaking behavior	53.10 (3.99)	54.20 (4.05)	0.248	0.464	0.015	Fair
	Intrusive behavior	52.35 (4.34)	53.15 (5.52)	0.405	0.646	0.001	Good
Combined scales	Internalizing	52.90 (10.80)	52.25 (9.82)	0.756	0.617	0.001	Good
	Externalizing	48.15 (8.62)	50.90 (7.45)	0.149	0.461	0.016	Fair
	Total problems	48.90 (9.24)	50.65 (8.36)	0.367	0.541	0.005	Fair
	Critical items	55.50 (6.05)	55.85 (5.28)	0.759	0.624	0.001	Good
	Personal strength	46.35 (10.81)	46.55 (7.20)	0.941	0.103	0.326	Poor

SD: standard deviation.