Assessment of ADHD Symptoms and the Issue of Cultural Variation: Are Conners 3 Rating Scales Applicable to Children and Parents With Migration Background?

Journal of Attention Disorders

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 587-599

  Schmidt, Martin ^a   Reh, Verena ^a   Hirsch, Oliver ^a   Rief, Winfried ^a   Christiansen, Hanna ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADHD; assessment; cultural variation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; PARENT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCHOOL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); TURKEY; UNIVERSITY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FACULTY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHOOLS; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TRANSLATING; TURKEY;

EID: 85018997997     PISSN: 10870547     EISSN: 15571246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087054713493319     Document Type: Article

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