Screening Amazon’s Mechanical Turk for Adults With ADHD

Journal of Attention Disorders

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2019, Pages 1178-1187

  Wymbs, Brian T ^a   Dawson, Anne E ^a  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adult ADHD; assessment; online sample

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CROWDSOURCING; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CROWDSOURCING; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 85068932489     PISSN: 10870547     EISSN: 15571246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087054715597471     Document Type: Article

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