Assessing symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: Which is more valid?
Assessing symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adults: Which is more valid?
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DOI：
10.1037/0022-006x.68.5.830
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发表时间：
2000-10-01
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Monuteaux, MC
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作者：
Faraone, SV;Biederman, J;Monuteaux, MC
成人注意缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)的评估一直是争议的来源。作者通过评估ADHD儿童的成年和未成年亲属之间的家族传播来测试相互竞争的想法。他们分析了通过结构化访谈从280个ADHD和242个非ADHD家庭成员那里收集的ADHD症状数据。过去和现在的症状。男孩和女孩的家庭中，成年亲属的家庭聚集性明显高于未成年亲属。对于注意力不集中和多动-冲动症状，以及有或没有精神共病的亲属，结果是相似的。这些结果为成人ADHD的有效性提供了进一步的证据，并支持了一个有趣的观点，即从家庭角度来看，ADHD在成人中的评估可能比在儿童中更有效。他们不支持这样的观点，即ADHD儿童的父母因为接触ADHD儿童而有偏见地报告他们自己的ADHD症状。
The assessment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults has been a source of controversy. The authors tested competing ideas by evaluating familial transmission among adult and nonadult relatives of ADHD children. They analyzed ADHD symptom data collected by structured interviews from the members of 280 ADHD and 242 non-ADHD families. For both past and current symptoms. both the boys' and girls' families showed significantly more familial aggregation for adult relatives than for nonadult relatives. The results were similar for inattentive and hyperactive-impulsive symptoms and for relatives with and without psychiatric comorbidity. The results provide further evidence for the validity of adult ADHD and support the intriguing idea that, from a familial perspective, the assessment of ADHD may be more Valid in adults than in children. They do not support the idea that parents of ADHD children are biased to report ADHD symptoms in themselves because of their exposure to an ADHD child.