Comparison of mother, father, and teacher reports of ADHD core symptoms in a sample of child psychiatric outpatients. Sollie, H., Larsson, B., & Mørch, W. Journal of attention disorders, 17(8):699–710, November, 2013.
Comparison of mother, father, and teacher reports of ADHD core symptoms in a sample of child psychiatric outpatients. [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
OBJECTIVE: To explore the significance of adding father ratings to mother and teacher ratings in the assessment of ADHD symptoms in children. METHOD: The ADHD Rating Scale-IV, the Child Behavior Checklist, and the Teacher Report Form were filled out by all three informants for a sample of 48 clinically referred children (79% boys) aged 6 to 15 (M = 10.1) years. RESULTS: Correspondence between father and teacher reports on ADHD-specific symptoms (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = .38) exceeded that between mothers and teachers (ICC = .23). Fathers rated their children as having fewer problems than did mothers and teachers on Total scale scores and the Inattention subscale of the ADHD Rating Scale-IV. Mother ratings were more sensitive to an ADHD diagnosis, whereas father ratings better predicted an ADHD diagnosis requiring the two-setting criterion. CONCLUSION: The choice of parent informant and informant combination had a considerable impact on parent-teacher concordance and estimates of ADHD symptoms and subtypes in the child.
@article{sollie_comparison_2013,
	title = {Comparison of mother, father, and teacher reports of {ADHD} core symptoms in a sample of child psychiatric outpatients.},
	volume = {17},
	issn = {1557-1246},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22441890},
	doi = {10.1177/1087054711436010},
	abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To explore the significance of adding father ratings to mother and teacher ratings in the assessment of ADHD symptoms in children.

METHOD: The ADHD Rating Scale-IV, the Child Behavior Checklist, and the Teacher Report Form were filled out by all three informants for a sample of 48 clinically referred children (79\% boys) aged 6 to 15 (M = 10.1) years.

RESULTS: Correspondence between father and teacher reports on ADHD-specific symptoms (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = .38) exceeded that between mothers and teachers (ICC = .23). Fathers rated their children as having fewer problems than did mothers and teachers on Total scale scores and the Inattention subscale of the ADHD Rating Scale-IV. Mother ratings were more sensitive to an ADHD diagnosis, whereas father ratings better predicted an ADHD diagnosis requiring the two-setting criterion.

CONCLUSION: The choice of parent informant and informant combination had a considerable impact on parent-teacher concordance and estimates of ADHD symptoms and subtypes in the child.},
	number = {8},
	urldate = {2015-05-12},
	journal = {Journal of attention disorders},
	author = {Sollie, Henrik and Larsson, Bo and Mørch, Willy-Tore},
	month = nov,
	year = {2013},
	pmid = {22441890},
	keywords = {Adolescent, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity: dia, Child, Faculty, Fathers, Female, Humans, Male, Mothers, Outpatients, Outpatients: psychology, Symptom Assessment},
	pages = {699--710},
}

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