Retrospective Self-Reported Symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Reliability of the Wender Utah Rating Scale

Rossini, Edward D.; O’Connor, Margaret

doi:10.2466/pr0.1995.77.3.751

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“…The test-retest reliability of the WURS has been reported to be good [24], but one of the problems with the WURS is that it is not validated for patients with ASP. As, according to the DSM-IV-TR [25], ASP is always preceded by CD before the age of 15, and because of high comorbidity between CD and ADHD, it is difficult to distinguish which of the retrospectively rated symptoms in fact are associated with CD and which are markers of childhood ADHD.…”

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ADHD and Sleep in Homicidal Men with Antisocial Personality Disorder

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A history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is commonly found in subjects with antisocial personality disorder (ASP). Besides ASP, childhood ADHD also predicts drug abuse disorders and criminal activity in adulthood. Childhood ADHD and ASP appear to be the only psychiatric disorders reported to be associated with an increase in deep sleep. The aims of the present study were to retrospectively measure the childhood ADHD of habitually violent men with ASP and Cloninger type 2 alcoholism, and to characterize the possible relationship between childhood ADHD and sleep architecture in these men. The subjects of the study consisted of 14 homicidal offenders recruited from a forensic psychiatric examination. Ten age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers served as controls. Childhood ADHD symptoms were measured using the Wender-Utah Rating Scale (WURS). The main findings were that violent offenders with ASP had significantly higher mean WURS scores compared with controls, and both the absolute and percentage amount of stage 4 sleep as well as δ and Θ powers in this sleep stage were positively correlated with the WURS scores. The present study supports the idea that childhood ADHD is associated with the abnormal sleep architecture in habitually violent men with ASP. These two disorders seem to share, at least partly, the same central nervous system deficit.

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“…WURS has been shown to be a sensitive instrument for the retrospective identification of childhood ADHD symptoms [23] with good test-retest validity in a normal population [24]. The scale contains 61 statements with a 5-point quantitative scale.…”

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“…The WURS was described previously (Burton et al, 2003), but this time the abbreviated version, a 25-item subset of the WURS, was chosen to be consistent with the relatively short DSM IV inventory (Ward et al, 1993), and it also exhibits internal and temporal consistency (Rossini and O'Connor, 1995). Subjects rated themselves for each behavior on a scale of 0-4 (not at all or very slightly, score ¼ 0; mildly, score ¼ 1; moderately, score ¼ 2; quite a bit, score ¼ 3; or very much, score ¼ 4).…”

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Attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder and fluctuating asymmetry in another college sample

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Everson

Williams

et al. 2006

American J Hum Biol

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) represents a developmental lag that may be reflected in fluctuating asymmetry (FA), i.e., differences from perfect symmetry in traits that display bilateral symmetry. Burton et al. (2003 Am. J. Hum. Biol. 15:601-619) found a statistical trend for FA to increase (as dermatoglyphic index or as total index) as the behavioral measure for AD/HDness (Rasch logit values derived from the Wender Utah Rating Scale, or WURS) increased in males but not in females. The objective here was to do a similar study in an independently collected sample of college students (n = 222; 61 male, 161 female) not selected for AD/HD, looking at FA vs. symptoms for AD/HD based on Rasch versions of responses to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV) (Barkley and Murphy 1998 Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, New York: Guilford Press, p. 95-96) and the more comparable shortened WURS. FAs were lowest for body and ear height, and highest for eye width and nose width, and ranged from 0.01 +/- 0.001 (mean +/- SE) for foot and ankle widths to 0.13 +/- 0.01 in eye and nose widths for both sexes; the sexes did not differ significantly. Males displayed higher AD/HD symptom rates overall. There was a significant correlation between body FA and the WURS measure in females after Bonferroni correction (P = 0.002, r(2) = 0.058). Thus, AD/HD symptoms levels increased with an increase in body FA in female college students not selected for AD/HD.

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“…Trabajos previos llevados a cabo con población universitaria han revelado una buena consistencia interna y fi abilidad test-retest al cabo de un mes de las dos formas de WURS (Rossini & O'Connor, 1995). Así mismo, análisis factoriales llevados a cabo en otro estudio han revelado que la escala de 25 ítems se ajusta a un modelo de tres factores (atención, hiperactividad y impulsividad), explicando el 59.4 % de la varianza (McCann, Schelle, Ward, & Roy-Byme, 2000), y clasifi cando correctamente el 64.5% de los pacientes que solicitaron una evaluación para el TDAH.…”

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Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH): Prevalencia y Características Sociodemográficas en Población Reclusa

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Díaz³

et al. 2015

Psicol. Reflex. Crit.

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ResumenDiversos estudios coinciden en señalar que la prevalencia de enfermedades mentales en internos penitenciarios es signifi cativamente mayor que en la población general. En este contexto, la literatura muestra que existe una importante presencia de síntomas del Trastorno por Défi cit de Atención con Hiperactividad (TDAH) en esta población. Sin embargo, la investigación al respecto es escasa. En este estudio se estimó la prevalencia con cribado positivo para TDAH en la población penitenciaria, y se establecieron las características sociodemográfi cas asociadas al trastorno. Se administraron dos escalas de evaluación del TDAH ampliamente empleadas y validadas en población adulta -ASRS y WURS. Los participantes fueron 143 presos del Establecimiento Penitenciario de Villabona (Asturias, España), con un rango de edad entre 18 y 69 años. Los resultados obtenidos indican una prevalencia aparente del TDAH en torno al 25% utilizando ambas escalas y con resultados coincidentes entre ellas. Además se encontraron diferencias signifi cativas por sexo, por nivel de escolaridad y situación laboral, con diferentes perfi les según la presencia de los síntomas del TDAH. Estos resultados evidencian la necesidad de estudiar las consecuencias de este trastorno en la población penitenciaria, con el objeto de mejorar el manejo terapéutico en este contexto, atendiendo a sus características. Palabras clave: TDAH, prisión, prevalencia, características sociodemográfi cas, evaluación de la conducta. AbstractThere is a good deal of evidence suggesting that the prevalence of mental disorders among imprisoned people is signifi cantly higher that in general population. In this context, literature shows that there is an important presence of Attention Defi cit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) within this population. However, research on this topic is lacking. This study estimated the prevalence of ADHD in a penitentiary population by means of positive screening and established the sociodemographic characteristics related to the presence of the disorder. Two different scales of ADHD, widely applied and validated for adult population, were used for this purpose -ASRS and WURS. One-hundred and forty three prisoners between 18 and 69 years old from Villabona's Penitentiary Establishment (Asturias, Spain) took part in this study. Results showed 25% of apparent prevalence of ADHD, using both scales. Statistically signifi cant differences were found in sex, educational level and employment situation, showing different profi les as a function of the presence of ADHD symptoms. These results highlight the need to study the consequences of this disorder within imprisoned populations in order to improve therapeutic management, paying attention to their characteristics.

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Retrospective Self-Reported Symptoms of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Reliability of the Wender Utah Rating Scale

Cited by 54 publications

References 10 publications

ADHD and Sleep in Homicidal Men with Antisocial Personality Disorder

ADHD and Sleep in Homicidal Men with Antisocial Personality Disorder

Attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder and fluctuating asymmetry in another college sample

Trastorno por Déficit de Atención e Hiperactividad (TDAH): Prevalencia y Características Sociodemográficas en Población Reclusa

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