Screening for the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder phenotype using the strength and difficulties questionnaire

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 451-458

  Ullebø, Anne Karin ^a   Posserud, Maj Britt ^a   Heiervang, Einar ^a   Gillberg, Christopher ^a   Obel, Carsten ^a  

^a Unifob Health Department   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); Children; Screening; Strength and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)

Indexed keywords

AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRENGTH AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE; SYMPTOM;

ALGORITHMS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL HEALTH; NORWAY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84855190505     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: 1435165X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00787-011-0198-9     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Achenbach TM, McConaughy SH, Howell CT (1987) Child/ adolescent behavioral and emotional problems: implications of cross-informant correlations for situational specificity. Psychol Bull 101:213-232
2. American Psychiatric Association (1994) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV. American Psychiatric Association, Washington, DC
3. Becker A, Woerner W, Hasselhorn M, Banaschewski T, Rothenberger A (2004) Validation of the parent and teacher SDQ in a clinical sample. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13(Suppl 2): II11-II16
4. Collett BR, Ohan JL, Myers K (2003) Ten-Year review of rating scales. V: scales assessing attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 42:1015-1037 (Pubitemid 39571825)
5. Cuffe SP, Moore CG, McKeown RE (2009) ADHD and health services utilization in the national health interview survey. J Atten Disord 12:330-340
6. Cuffe SP, Moore CG, McKeown RE (2005) Prevalence and correlates of ADHD symptoms in the national health interview survey. J Atten Disord 9:392-401 (Pubitemid 41608111)
7. Dopfner M, Breuer D, Wille N, Erhart M, Ravens-Sieberer U (2008) How often do children meet ICD-10/DSM-IV criteria of attention deficit-/ hyperactivity disorder and hyperkinetic disorder? Parent-based prevalence rates in a national sample-results of the BELLA study. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 17(Suppl 1):59-70
8. Gomez R, Burns GL, Walsh JA, de Moura MA (2003) A multitrait-multisource confirmatory factor analytic approach to the construct validity of ADHD rating scales. Psychol Assess 15:3-16 (Pubitemid 36314922)
9. Goodman R, Ford T, Corbin T, Meltzer H (2004) Using the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) multi-informant algorithm to screen looked-after children for psychiatric disorders. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13(Suppl 2):II25-II31
10. Goodman R (2001) Psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:1337-1345 (Pubitemid 32995803)
11. Goodman R, Ford T, Simmons H, Gatward R, Meltzer H (2000) Using the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) to screen for child psychiatric disorders in a community sample. Br J Psychiatry 177:534-539 (Pubitemid 32005485)
12. Goodman R, Renfrew D, Mullick M (2000) Predicting type of psychiatric disorder from strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ) scores in child mental health clinics in London and Dhaka. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 9:129-134 (Pubitemid 30430443)
13. Goodman R, Scott S (1999) Comparing the strengths and difficulties questionnaire and the child behavior checklist: is small beautiful? J Abnorm Child Psychol 27:17-24 (Pubitemid 29144689)
14. Hawes DJ, Dadds MR (2004) Australian data and psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:644-651 (Pubitemid 39199493)
15. Heiervang E, Goodman A, Goodman R (2008) The Nordic advantage in child mental health: separating health differences from reporting style in a cross-cultural comparison of psychopathology. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 49:678-685 (Pubitemid 351713312)
16. Heiervang E, Stormark KM, Lundervold AJ, Heimann M, Goodman R, Posserud MB, Ullebo AK, Plessen KJ, Bjelland I, Lie SA, Gillberg C (2007) Psychiatric disorders in Norwegian 8- to 10-year-olds: an epidemiological survey of prevalence, risk factors, and service use. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 46:438-447 (Pubitemid 46622752)
17. Klasen H, Woerner W, Wolke D, Meyer R, Overmeyer S, Kaschnitz W, Rothenberger A, Goodman R (2000) Comparing the German versions of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ-Deu) and the child behavior checklist. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 9:271-276 (Pubitemid 32046148)
18. Koskelainen M, Sourander A, Kaljonen A (2000) The strengths and difficulties questionnaire among Finnish school-aged children and adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 9:277-284 (Pubitemid 32046149)
19. Kumpulainen K, Rasanen E, Henttonen I, Moilanen I, Piha J, Puura K, Tamminen T, Almqvist F (1999) Children's behavioural/ emotional problems: a comparison of parents' and teachers' reports for elementary school-aged children. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 8(4):41-47 (Pubitemid 30022301)
20. Malmberg M, Rydell AM, Smedje H (2003) Validity of the Swedish version of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ-Swe). Nord J Psychiatry 57:357-363 (Pubitemid 37361960)
21. Mathai J, Anderson P, Bourne A (2004) Comparing psychiatric diagnoses generated by the strengths and difficulties questionnaire with diagnoses made by clinicians. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 38:639-643 (Pubitemid 39199492)
22. Mullick MS, Goodman R (2001) Questionnaire screening for mental health problems in Bangladeshi children: a preliminary study. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 36:94-99 (Pubitemid 32303399)
23. Muris P, Meesters C, van den Berg F (2003) The strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)-Further evidence for its reliability and validity in a community sample of Dutch children and adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 12:1-8 (Pubitemid 36336854)
24. Obel C, Heiervang E, Rodriguez A, Heyerdahl S, Smedje H, Sourander A, Guethmundsson OO, Clench-Aas J, Christensen E, Heian F, Mathiesen KS, Magnusson P, Njarethvik U, Koskelainen M, Ronning JA, Olsen J (2004) The strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the Nordic countries. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13(Suppl 2):II32-II39
25. Pelham WE, Fabiano GA, Massetti GM (2005) Evidence-based assessment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents. J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 34:449-476 (Pubitemid 41355524)
26. Rowland AS, Skipper B, Rabiner DL, Umbach DM, Stallone L, Campbell RA, Hough RL, Naftel AJ, Sandler DP (2008) The shifting subtypes of ADHD: classification depends on how symptom reports are combined. J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:731-743
27. SPSS I (1993) SPSS advanced statistics. SPSS Inc., Chicago
28. Stormark KM, Heiervang E, Heimann M, Lundervold A, Gillberg C (2008) Predicting nonresponse bias from teacher ratings of mental health problems in primary school children. J Abnorm Child Psychol 36:411-419
29. Swanson JM, Kraemer HC, Hinshaw SP, Arnold LE, Conners CK, Abikoff HB, Clevenger W, Davies M, Elliott GR, Greenhill LL, Hechtman L, Hoza B, Jensen PS, March JS, Newcorn JH, Owens EB, Pelham WE, Schiller E, Severe JB, Simpson S, Vitiello B, Wells K, Wigal T, Wu M (2001) Clinical relevance of the primary findings of the MTA: success rates based on severity of ADHD and ODD symptoms at the end of treatment. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 40:168-179 (Pubitemid 32111020)
30. Woerner W, Becker A, Rothenberger A (2004) Normative data and scale properties of the German parent SDQ. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 13:3-10
31. World Health Organization (1996) Multiaxial classification of child and adolescent psychiatric disorders: the ICD-10 classification of mental and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge