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Published on: June 12, 2020
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): parents' judgment about school, teachers' judgment about home
Pieter F A de Nijs1, Robert F Ferdinand, Esther I de Bruin
1Outpatients' Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital, 3000 CB Rotterdam, The Netherlands. p.denijs@erasmusmc.nl
Objective:
The aim of this study was to separate sources of observer and situational variance in reporting attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptomatology.
Method:
In a sample of 30 children diagnosed with ADHD, ADHD symptomatology was assessed with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-Parent Version (DISC-P), with parents and teachers as informants. Both parents and teachers reported about the child's ADHD symptomatology at home as well as at school.
Results:
Parents and teachers showed high within-observer cross-situational presence of ADHD symptoms. However, the between-observer agreement on the presence of ADHD symptoms within the same situation (home or school) was low. This pattern held equally true for attention/concentration and hyperactivity/impulsivity symptom scores.
Conclusions:
In evaluating ADHD symptomatology, it is important to obtain independent reports about the child's behaviour at school from the teacher and about the child's behaviour at home from the parents.
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