AUTOMATED ASSESSMENT OF CHILD ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER

描述（由申请人提供）：本阶段SBIR申请的目的 （1）提供有关结构化观察的额外验证数据， 学术和游戏设置（SOAPS），一个研究范式，评估 注意力缺陷障碍的症状行为;（2）估计 有效性和可行性的一个新的自动化，循证版本， 执行功能详细记录（DREFT）DREFT是一种方便的 15-一分钟的模拟程序，提供客观的评估 注意力不集中、过度活跃和冲动的行为。在第一阶段，我们将 更新1985年SOAPS手册（Roberts，Nilich和Loney），使用我们的研究结果， 对960名6岁至6岁的门诊转诊和正常男孩和女孩的计算机档案 和15岁。我们还将分析95名儿童的数据， 管理DREFT，为新的自动化测试提供验证结果。 程序，并将其与SOAPS的效度，信度和 实用性.这些调查结果将汇编成一份初步手册， DREF的潜在用户。如果有必要，在第二阶段，我们将 将DREFT用于其他诊所转诊的儿童，特别是 增加学龄前儿童、女童和少数民族儿童的人数; 正常儿童的代表性标准化数据;并产生一个最终的 DREFT程序手册。 拟定商业应用： 执行功能详细记录（DREFT）是一种简短的，自动化的，基于证据的行为观察程序，可由儿科医生，家庭医生，精神科医生和心理学家常规使用，作为注意力缺陷/多动障碍（ADHD）和相关儿童和青少年行为问题的诊断和治疗监测的成本效益和客观补充。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The aims of this Phase I SBIR application are (1) to provide additional validation data on the Structured Observation of Academic and Play Settings (SOAPS), a research paradigm for assessing the symptom behaviors of Attention Deficit Disorder; and (2) to estimate the validity and feasibility of a new automated, evidence-based version, the Detailed Record of Executive Functions (DREFT). The DREFT is a convenient 15-minute analogue procedure that provides an objective assessment of inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive behaviors. During Phase I, we will update the 1985 SOAPS manual (Roberts, Nilich, & Loney) with findings from our computer archives on 960 clinic-referred and normal boys and girls between 6 and 15 years of age. We will also analyze data on 95 children who have been administered the DREFT, providing validation findings for the new automated procedure and comparing it to the SOAPS in validity, reliability, and practicality. These findings will be assembled in a preliminary manual for potential users of the DREFT. If warranted, during Phase II, we would administer the DREFT to additional clinic-referred children, especially to increase numbers of preschool, female, and minority children; assemble representative standardization data on normal children; and produce a final manual for the DREFT procedure. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: The Detailed Record of Executive Functions (DREFT) is a brief, automated, evidence based behavior observation procedure that could be used routinely by pediatricians, family practitioners, psychiatrists, and psychologists as a cost effective and objective supplement in the diagnosis and treatment monitoring of Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related child and adolescent behavior problems.