Relationship between diagnosis of adhd in offspring and current and retrospective self-reports of parental adhd

This study aimed to discover the relationship between parental self-reports of ADHD symptoms and the diagnosis of ADHD in offspring, to demonstrate the extent to which parental ADHD symptoms predict ADHD diagnosis in offspring, to examine the contribution of adult ADHD scales to ADHD diagnosis, and to provide findings on the psychometric utility of adult ADHD scales. The sample consisted of 6-12-year-old boys diagnosed with ADHD (n = 149), boys in the control group (n = 47) and both parents (n = 392). Amongst the many exclusion criteria was the comorbidity of neurological and psychiatric disorders. Parental self-reports of current ADHD symptoms were obtained using the Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Scale (ADD/ADHD Scale), and past symptoms were retrospectively obtained using the Wender-Utah Rating Scale (WUR Scale). For children diagnosed with ADHD, the frequency of parents with ADHD symptoms was higher than the parents without ADHD symptoms; the significance was derived from the group in which both parents displayed ADHD symptoms. The ADHD symptom scores of the parents led to a high accuracy level when predicting ADHD in children (sensitivity) but led to a low accuracy level when classifying children without any diagnosis in the control group (specificity). The study disclosed the psychometric strengths and weaknesses of the ADD/ADHD and WUR scales for measuring parental ADHD symptoms and provided original findings on their psychometric properties

Conners derecelendirme ölçeğinin yönetici işlevlerle ilişkisi

Objective: Conners Rating Scale (CRS) is frequently used as an auxiliary tool in the diagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Our objective was to study the contribution of CRS to ADHD diagnosis and to show the characteristics on which group (ADHD; control) and DEHB subtype differentiation is based. For this, findings on CRS were compared with those from Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Functions (BRIEF), a clinical scale that was specifically developed for ADHD diagnosis. Material and Methods: The study consisted of 160 males within the 72-151 months of age range. There were 122 males in the ADHD (combined subtype: 69, predominantly attention deficit subtype: 37, predominantly hyperactivity/impulsivity subtype: 16) and 38 in the healthy control group. Participants' teachers and parents filled in the forms (rendering 3 scores on subscales of the teacher form and 5 scores on those of the parent form) and BRIEF (rendering 8 scores on subscales of both the teacher and parent forms)(teacher form and parent form each consisting of 8 scores) and submitted them to the researchers. Results: Data were analyzed using analysis of variance, logistic regression analysis and principle component analysis. In both scales, the difference between ADHD and the control group was significant; however none of the scores significantly differentiated subgroups of ADHD. Sensitivity (classification of cases with ADHD to the ADHD group) was high, however specificity (classification of healthy participants to the control group) in especially the CRS parent form was low. The addition of the BRIEF scores to the model did not appreciably alter this finding. CRS was characterized by two factors and grouping occurred according to who did the rating, a finding not justifying the 8 different CRS subtests. Conclusion: Findings suggest that the clinical utility of CRS should be further studied in future research