Review of clinical validation of ADHD behavior rating scales. Export

@article{citeulike:2855831, abstract = {The purpose of this review is to assess the range of overall accuracies for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) behavior rating scales evaluated in clinical validation studies. Studies were characterized according to the evidence standards of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). Studies were excluded due to major design problems such as overfitting by discriminant analysis. The 13 included evaluations of rating scales revealed overall accuracy in the range of 59\%-79\% with a pooled mean of 69\% (+/-7\%, standard deviation) and a pooled sample size of 2228 subjects from nine studies. While some of the excluded studies demonstrated higher overall accuracies (>79\%), these studies were observed to have factors in experimen tal design and statistics that are known to unduly inflate accuracy. We recommend further research following the full AAN standards, namely well-designed, blinded, pro spective studies of rating scales applied to clinically representative samples evaluated with a clinical standard.}, address = {University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, USA. ssnyder@hsc.unt.edu}, author = {Snyder, S. M. and Hall, J. R. and Cornwell, S. L. and Quintana, H.}, citeulike-article-id = {2855831}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17153805}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17153805}, issn = {0033-2941}, journal = {Psychological reports}, keywords = {adhd, classification, clinical, rating, scale}, month = {October}, number = {2}, pages = {363--378}, posted-at = {2008-06-02 06:05:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Review of clinical validation of ADHD behavior rating scales.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17153805}, volume = {99}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2855831 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2855831 N2 - The purpose of this review is to assess the range of overall accuracies for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) behavior rating scales evaluated in clinical validation studies. Studies were characterized according to the evidence standards of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). Studies were excluded due to major design problems such as overfitting by discriminant analysis. The 13 included evaluations of rating scales revealed overall accuracy in the range of 59%-79% with a pooled mean of 69% (+/-7%, standard deviation) and a pooled sample size of 2228 subjects from nine studies. While some of the excluded studies demonstrated higher overall accuracies (>79%), these studies were observed to have factors in experimen tal design and statistics that are known to unduly inflate accuracy. We recommend further research following the full AAN standards, namely well-designed, blinded, pro spective studies of rating scales applied to clinically representative samples evaluated with a clinical standard. IS - 2 JF - Psychological reports SN - 0033-2941 AD - University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, USA. ssnyder@hsc.unt.edu EP - 378 TI - Review of clinical validation of ADHD behavior rating scales. VL - 99 SP - 363 KW - adhd KW - classification KW - clinical KW - rating KW - scale AU - Snyder, SM AU - Hall, JR AU - Cornwell, SL AU - Quintana, H PY - 2006/10// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17153805 ER -