Instability in teacher ratings of children's inattentive symptoms: implications for the assessment of ADHD.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the cross-grade stability of clinically elevated teacher ratings of inattentive symptoms in 3 samples of elementary schoolchildren.

Participants and methods

Samples 1 and 2 included 27 first graders and 24 fourth graders, respectively, identified based on clinically elevated teacher ratings of inattentive symptoms. The third sample included 28 children in grades 1 to 4 from the Multimodal Treatment Study of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder Study) with a confirmed attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis. Teacher ratings of inattentive symptoms were completed an average of 12 to 14 months apart so that cross-grade stability of elevated ratings could be

SUBMITTER: Rabiner DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2859118 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature