Agreement rates between parent and self-report on past ADHD symptoms in an adult clinical sample
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Published on: June 12, 2020
Gabriela Dias1, Paulo Mattos, Gabriel Coutinho
1Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Objective:
To investigate agreement rates between parent and self-report on childhood symptoms of ADHD.
Method:
Sixty-eight self-referred treatment-naïve adults (33 men, 35 women) were interviewed with a modified version of the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Epidemiological Version (K-SADS-E) and asked about past ADHD symptoms, using modified Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th edition; DSM-IV) criteria (at least six symptoms in either domain for present and past symptoms). Parents were given a questionnaire with DSM-IV symptoms list.
Results:
Forty-six patients (67.6%) agreed on the presence of past ADHD diagnosis with their parents; there was agreement on subtype in more than half of cases (58.7%). Fifty patients (73.5%) reported positive past inattention symptomatology, and 31 of them (62.0%) agreed with their parents on their presence in childhood. Thirty-six patients (52.9%) reported positive hyperactivity-impulsivity symptomatology, and 20 of them (55.6%) agreed with their parents' reports.
Conclusions:
Results suggest retrospective information provided by adults with ADHD has moderate agreement rates with parents' reports for both domains.
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