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Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist (BPSC) Scoring Guide Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist (BPSC) Scoring Guide

The Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist (BPSC) is a questionnaire used to screen for behavioral and emotional problems in young children. It is scored by assigning values of 0, 1, or 2 to responses and summing the values. Higher scores may indicate issues, though the BPSC is most accurate when tracking scores longitudinally. The questionnaire detected behavioral risks in 79% of children identified by another screening tool, but also flagged 26% not identified by that tool, so results should be interpreted cautiously. Normative curves are provided to compare individual scores by age.

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Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist (BPSC) Scoring Guide Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist (BPSC) Scoring Guide

The Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist (BPSC) is a questionnaire used to screen for behavioral and emotional problems in young children. It is scored by assigning values of 0, 1, or 2 to responses and summing the values. Higher scores may indicate issues, though the BPSC is most accurate when tracking scores longitudinally. The questionnaire detected behavioral risks in 79% of children identified by another screening tool, but also flagged 26% not identified by that tool, so results should be interpreted cautiously. Normative curves are provided to compare individual scores by age.

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Baby Pediatric Symptom Checklist

(BPSC) Scoring Guide

Scoring Instructions:
1. Determine the BPSC total score by assigning a “0” for each “not at all” response, a “1” for each
“somewhat” response, and a “2” for each “very much” response, and then summing the results.
2. For items where parents have selected multiple responses for a single question, choose the more
concerning answer (i.e. "somewhat" or "very much") farthest to the right.
3. A missing item counts as zero

Interpretation:

BPSC scores are sensitive to age. We recommend tracking children’s scores longitudinally using the
attached charts. As a proxy, any score of 3 or more on any of the three scales can be considered positive.
Note: In our preliminary study, 79% of children with behavioral risk according to the ASQ-SE were also identified on the BPSC.
However, 26% of children who had not been identified by the ASQ-SE were also detected. Validity data based on diagnoses
was not available due to the small sample of diagnosed behavioral disroders for very young children. We therefore recommend
interpreting results of this questionnaire with caution.

Normative curves for BPSC scales

Irritability
Score

Age in months

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Inflexibility
Score

Age in months

Difficulty with routines


Score

Age in months

Technical Note: Curves are a function of age (months) and age². Constants, linear and quadratic coefficients for each curve are as follows:
irritability50th=[0,0,0]; irritability70th=[1,0,0]; irritability90th=[3,0,0]; inflexibility50th=[-.393,.204,-.004]; inflexibility70th=[-.432,.446,-.014];
inflexibility90th=[1.086,.495,-.019]; routines50th=[1,0,0]; routines70th=[3.426,-.231,.009]; routines90th=[5.2,-.233,.011]

Version 1, 9/5/13

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