The investigation of ADHD prevalence in kindergarten children in northeast Iran and a determination of the criterion validity of Conners' questionnaire via clinical interview

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 357-361

  Abdekhodaie, Zahra ^a   Tabatabaei, Seyed Mahmood ^b   Gholizadeh, Mortaza ^c  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

ADHD; Clinical interview; Conners' parent teacher questionnaire; Kindergarten children; Predictive criterion validity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL INTERVIEW; CONNER PARENT TEACHER QUESTIONNAIRE; CRITERION RELATED VALIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; IRAN; KINDERGARTEN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 82055185465     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: 18733379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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