Cross-cultural adaptation of the Italian version of the "Child and Youth Mental Health Instrument for Developmental Disabilities" (I-ChYMH-DD)

Ital J Pediatr. 2026 Mar 14. doi: 10.1186/s13052-026-02224-7. Online ahead of print.

Elisabetta Sforza¹, Chiara Leoni^{2

3}, Elena De Rosa³, Jacopo Bellani³, Germana Viscogliosi³, Antonella Di Paola⁴, Marta Zampino⁵, Rita Fischetto⁶, Marika Pane⁷, Donato Rigante^{1

2

3}, Serenella Servidei⁸, Guido Primiano⁸, Roberta Onesimo^{2

3}, Angelo Carfì⁹, Zampino Giuseppe^{1

3}

¹ Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168, Rome, Italy.
² Pediatric Unit, Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy.
³ Center for Rare Diseases and Birth Defects, Department of Woman and Child Health and Public Health, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy.
⁴ Department of Geriatrics, Centro Medicina dell'Invecchiamento, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy.
⁵ National Institutes on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁶ Istituto di Biologia e Genetica Generale, Medicina e Chirurgia, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy.
⁷ Centro Clinico Nemo Pediatrico, Fondazione Policlinico "A. Gemelli" IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
⁸ Institute of Neurology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Rome, Italy.
⁹ Department of Geriatrics, Centro Medicina dell'Invecchiamento, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Roma, Italy. angelo.carfi@policlinicogemelli.it.

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Keywords: Adolescents; Personalized medicine; Scale; Transition to adult care; Validation.

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