Person—level of psychiatric symptom severity, Children's Global Assessment Scale score code N[NN]

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Data Element
Short name:	Level of psychiatric symptom severity (CGAS score)
METEOR identifier:	654407
Registration status:	Health, Standard 28/02/2017
Definition:	An assessment of the severity of a person's psychiatric symptoms, as represented by a code.
Context:	Psychiatric symptom severity, persons aged 17 years and under.
Data Element Concept:	Person—level of psychiatric symptom severity

Value domain attributes

Representational attributes

Representation class:

Code

Data type:

Number

Format:

N[NN]

Maximum character length:

Supplementary values:

Value	Meaning
997	Unable to rate
999	Not stated/missing

Collection and usage attributes

Guide for use:

The Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS) was developed to provide a measure of severity of disturbance in children and adolescents. It is designed to reflect the lowest level of functioning for a child or an adolescent during a specified period.

The measure provides a single global rating only, on a scale of 1 to 100. Clinicians assign a score, with 1 representing the most functionally impaired child, and 100 the healthiest child.

Scale ranges:

100-91	Superior functioning in all areas
90-81	Good functioning in all areas
80-71	No more than slight impairments in functioning
70-61	Some difficulty in a single area but generally functioning pretty well
60-51	Variable functioning with sporadic difficulties or symptoms in several but not all social areas
50-41	Moderate interference in functioning in most social areas or severe impairment of functioning in one area
40-31	Major impairment of functioning in several areas and unable to function in one of these areas
30-21	Unable to function in almost all areas
20-11	Needs considerable supervision
10-1	Needs constant supervision

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:

Independent Hospital Pricing Authority

Reference documents:

Australian Mental Health Outcomes and Classification Network 2005. Training Manual: Child & Adolescent All Service Settings. Viewed 13 September 2016, http://www.amhocn.org/sites/default/files/publication_files
/child_adolescent_manual.pdf