Screening for the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder phenotype using the strength and difficulties questionnaire
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Anne Karin Ullebّ Maj-Britt Posserud Einar Heiervang Christopher Gillberg Carsten Obe
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2011
Description
The strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) is a broad-band child mental health instrument, which has been reported to be a good screener for the ADHD phenotype. Questionnaires containing the SDQ and the 18 SNAP-IV items corresponding to the DSM-IV ADHD symptoms were completed by parents and teachers for 66% (N = 6,233) of all 7- to 9-year-olds in the city of Bergen, Norway, 2002. Screening properties of the fiveitem SDQ hyperactivity–inattention subscale for the DSMIV ADHD phenotype were examined. Using the DSM-IV ADHD phenotype based on both informants as the gold standard (5.2% of the sample), the receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analyses demonstrated an area under the curve of 0.91 (95% CI: 0.90–0.92) for parent and 0.95 (95% CI: 0.94–0.95) for teacher SDQ hyperactivity– inattention subscale ratings. The SDQ hyperactivity– inattention predictive algorithm identified 74% of those with the ADHD combined subtype as possible or probable cases, but only 22% of those with the inattentive subtype. The 5-item long SDQ hyperactivity–inattention subscale is a shorter substitute for the 18-item ADHD symptom list. The SDQ predictive algorithm had an acceptable sensitivity for the ADHD combined subtype, but low sensitivity for the ADHD inattentive and the ADHD hyperactive subtype
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry DOI 10.1007/s00787-011-0198-9 Received: 17 October 2010 / Accepted: 30 June 2011
