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Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 8/2011

01-11-2011

The Effects of Instructions on Mothers’ Ratings of Child Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms

Auteurs: Charlotte Johnston, Margaret Weiss, Candice Murray, Natalie Miller

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 8/2011

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Abstract

We examined whether instructional materials describing how to rate child ADHD symptoms would improve the accuracy of mothers’ ratings of ADHD symptoms presented in standard child behavior stimuli, and whether instructions would be equally effective across a range of maternal depressive symptoms and family incomes. A community sample of 100 mothers with 5 to 12 year old sons were randomly assigned to either receive or not receive the instructions. All mothers watched standard video recordings of boys displaying nonproblem behavior, ADHD symptoms, ADHD plus oppositional behaviors, or ADHD plus anxious behaviors, and then rated the ADHD symptoms of the boys in the videos. These ratings were compared to ratings of the boys’ ADHD symptoms made by objective coders. Results indicated an interaction such that the instructional materials improved the agreement between mothers’ and coders’ ratings, but only for mothers at lower family income levels. The instructional materials improved all mothers’ open-ended responses regarding knowledge of ADHD. All mothers rated more ADHD symptoms in boys with comorbid oppositional or anxious behaviors, and this effect was not reduced by the instructional materials. The potential utility of these instructions to improve the accuracy of ratings of child ADHD symptoms is explored.
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Instructional materials are available from the first author.
 
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Because mothers rated only a brief sample of the child’s behavior, we used the scale anchors of “Not at all, Just a little, Pretty much, and Very much”, rather than the anchors provided with the ADHD-IV Rating Scale.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
The Effects of Instructions on Mothers’ Ratings of Child Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms
Auteurs
Charlotte Johnston
Margaret Weiss
Candice Murray
Natalie Miller
Publicatiedatum
01-11-2011
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 8/2011
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-011-9532-4

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