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Sensibilidad y especificidad de la valoración de padres y profesores de los síntomas del Trastorno por déficit de atención con hiperactividad

2001; Elsevier BV; Volume: 32; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

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María Forns i Santacana, Juan Antonio Amador, Bernardí Martorell de Balanzó,

Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

The clinical utility of parent and teacher rating of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) symptoms was studied by Receiver Operating Curve Analysis. The sample comprised 124 subjects with ages between 4 and 12 years old (62 children with Learning disorders or ADHD and 62 controls, paired by sex and age). The results show that teacher and parent ratings permit an accurate classification of subjects in a control or clinical group. Cut-off points for parent and teacher ratings were established for the DSM-IVADHD symptoms checklist and the attention profiles from Achenbach 's CBCL and TRF.