Convergence of the Child Behavior Checklist with Structured Interview‐based Psychiatric Diagnoses of ADHD Children with and without Comorbidity

Biederman, Joseph; Faraone, Stephen V.; Doyle, Alysa E.; Lehman, Belinda Krifcher; Kraus, Ilana; Perrin, James M.; Tsuang, Ming T.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01785.x

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“…Many studies have found an excellent correspondence between quantitative measures of ADHD (e.g. scales derived from the Child Behavior Checklist, the Conners Scales and the ADHD Rating Scale IV) and the categorical diagnosis (Edelbrock, 1986;Bird et al 1987;Biederman et al 1993Biederman et al , 1996Chen et al 1994;Boyle et al 1997;Hudziak, 1997). These studies suggest that children with ADHD are at one extreme of a quantitative dimension and that, on this quantitative dimension, there is no obvious bimodality that separates children with ADHD from other children.…”

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Personality traits among ADHD adults: implications of late-onset and subthreshold diagnoses

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Background-Diagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults is difficult when diagnosticians cannot establish onset prior to the DSM-IV criterion of age 7 or if the number of symptoms does not achieve the DSM threshold for diagnosis. Previous work has assessed the validity of such diagnoses based on psychiatric co-morbidity, family history and neuropsychological functions but none of these studies have used personality as a validation criterion.

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“…To facilitate reading overactive behavior at the age of 3 years is referred to with the abbreviation OA and attention problems at the older ages is referred to with AP. An association between a high score on the AP scale (a T-score of 67 is often applied as the borderline cut-off) and ADHD as assessed by the DSM is reported by numerous studies [Bird et al, 1988;Edelbrock and Costello, 1988;Steingard et al, 1992;Biederman et al, 1993;Chen et al, 1994;Hudziak et al, 2002, in review].…”

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Heritability of attention problems in children: I. cross‐sectional results from a study of twins, age 3–12 years

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American J of Med Genetics Pt B

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Multiple twin studies of attention problems (AP) from the Child Behavior Checklist or ADHD from the DSM criteria have reported on the genetic and environmental influences on these behaviors. The majority of these have studied AP and ADHD symptoms in twin samples combined across wide age spans, combined rater information and both genders. Thus, it is possible that the results are complicated by developmental, informant, and gender differences. The purpose of this study was to assess for the genetic and environmental contributions to overactive behavior (a syndrome highly related to AP in 7-, 10-, and 12-years olds) in 3-years olds (3,671 twin pairs), and attention problems in 7-(3,373 twin pairs), 10-(2,485 twin pairs), and 12-years olds (1,305 twin pairs) while controlling for developmental, gender and rater contrast contributions. Using a crosssectional twin design, contributions from genetic additive, genetic dominance, unique environmental and rater contrast effects were estimated for CBCL maternal reports. We found that genetic influences on overactive behavior and attention problems are high across an age span that covers preschool and elementary school age. Although girls display less problem behavior compared to boys, heritability estimates were found equal for both genders at each age. Environmental experiences that are unique to the individual accounted for the remaining influence. At the age of 3 years, a rater contrast effect was detected. We hypothesize that the contrast effect represents a maternal rater bias effect that is dependent on the age of the twins. The implications of these findings are discussed with reference to the clinical setting and in the context of future research. ß

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“…This meant the selection of about 15% of children from among the population with the highest intensity of hyperactivity-impulsivity and/or inattention symptoms. Cutoff of one standard deviation above the mean for results of other rating scales of ADHD symptoms was shown to have good predictive value of diagnosis of ADHD (Biederman et al, 1993;Geller et al, 2004). Thus, we assumed that using this cutoff we would identify children with both clinical and subclinical ADHD.…”

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Heterogeneity in Clinical Symptoms and Cognitive Functioning of Children with Hyperactivity-Impulsivity and Inattention: Dimensional and Person-Centered Perspectives

Gambin¹,

Święcicka²

2016

Polish Psychological Bulletin

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Abstract:The goal of this study was to investigate heterogeneity in clinical symptoms and cognitive functioning among children with hyperactivity-impulsivity and inattention using a novel approach that combined dimensional and personcentered perspectives. Executive, verbal and visuo-spatial functioning, hyperactivity-impulsivity, inattention 2016 , vol. 47(2) 195-206 DOI -10.1515 /ppb-2016 Our population of interest is children with parent-and teacher-rated ADHD symptoms. For a diagnosis of ADHD, the child must display symptoms in at least two different settings, such as at home and at school and information needs to be gathered from two or more informants (APA, 2000). However, a lot of children with subclinical ADHD symptoms suffer from self-regulation difficulties, experience problems in day-to-day life (especially in social and school functioning) and are often referred to psychologists and other specialists as they need therapeutic help (Kóbor, Takács, Urbán & Csépe, 2002;Rielly, Craig & Parker, 2006). Children with subclinical and clinical ADHD are characterized by high heterogeneity in terms of, among others: cognitive functioning, clinical symptoms, comorbid symptoms, and presentation of symptoms in different settings. Thus, it is important to differentiate groups of children with elevated ADHD symptoms characterized by various profiles of self-regulation difficulties in order to enable the development of more effective therapeutic and educational methods adjusted to the areas of problems in functioning. Polish Psychological BulletinSeveral studies revealed heterogeneity in cognitive functioning, especially in efficiency of executive functions, of children with ADHD symptoms (Chhabildas, Pennington & Willcutt, 2001;Nigg,Willcutt, Doyle & Sonuga-Barke, 2005). In many theoretical models (e.g., Barkley, 1997;Nigg, 2001;Schachar, Tannock, & Logan, 1993), executive function deficits are central to the explanation of the underlying mechanisms that lead to the manifestation of symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. Studies have consistently shown that the average performance in executive function tests of children with ADHD (especially those diagnosed with either the combined or predominantly inattentive subtypes) is significantly lower than the performance of children in a control group (Chhabildas et al., 2001;Nigg et al., 2005). However, the meta-analysis conducted by Nigg and colleagues (2005) revealed that there is a much greater variance in the scores of children with ADHD in comparison to children without ADHD on executive function tests. The distributions of these test scores for children in the control group and in the clinical group do overlap with some children with ADHD performing within the normal range on these tasks.Moreover, deficits in other various spheres of cognitive functioning were observed in children with ADHD symptoms: they achieve lower results on Unauthenticated Download Date | 5/11/18 8:59 PM

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Convergence of the Child Behavior Checklist with Structured Interview‐based Psychiatric Diagnoses of ADHD Children with and without Comorbidity

Cited by 241 publications

References 31 publications

Personality traits among ADHD adults: implications of late-onset and subthreshold diagnoses

Personality traits among ADHD adults: implications of late-onset and subthreshold diagnoses

Heritability of attention problems in children: I. cross‐sectional results from a study of twins, age 3–12 years

Heterogeneity in Clinical Symptoms and Cognitive Functioning of Children with Hyperactivity-Impulsivity and Inattention: Dimensional and Person-Centered Perspectives

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