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Item Response Theory Analysis of ADHD Symptoms in Children With and Without ADHD.
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- Impulsivity as key bridge symptoms in cross-sectional and longitudinal networks of ADHD and ODD.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2024Article
- Data-Driven Methods for Predicting ADHD Diagnosis and Related Impairment: The Potential of a Machine Learning Approach.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Explaining the Prospective Association of Positive and Negative Parenting Behaviors and Child ADHD Symptoms: Pathways Through Child Executive Function and Reward Responsivity.Journal of attention disorders · 2022Article
- Development of the short Creative Expression Interest Scale based on item response theory.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Network analysis of 18 attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms suggests the importance of "Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Differential utility of teacher and parent-teacher combined information in the assessment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Clinical Subtypes in Children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder According to Their Child Behavior Checklist Profile.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
- Toward a Revised Nosology for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Heterogeneity.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2020Review
- ADHD Parent and Teacher Symptom Ratings: Differential Item Functioning across Gender, Age, Race, and Ethnicity.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
- A data mining and item response mixture modeling method to retrospectively measure Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in the 1970 British Cohort Study.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2019Article
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- Hierarchy and Psychometric Properties of ADHD Symptoms in Spanish Children: An Application of the Graded Response Model.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
Item response theory (IRT) was separately applied to parent- and teacher-rated symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from a pooled sample of 526 six- to twelve-year-old children with and without ADHD. The dimensional structure ADHD was first examined using confirmatory factor analyses, including the bifactor model. A general ADHD factor and two group factors, representing inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive dimensions, optimally fit the data. Using the graded response model, we estimated discrimination and location parameters and information functions for all 18 symptoms of ADHD. Parent- and teacher-rated symptoms demonstrated adequate discrimination and location values, although these estimates varied substantially. For parent ratings, the test information curve peaked between -2 and +2 SD, suggesting that ADHD symptoms exhibited excellent overall reliability at measuring children in the low to moderate range of the general ADHD factor, but not in the extreme ranges. Similar results emerged for teacher ratings, in which the peak range of measurement precision was from -1.40 to 1.90 SD Several symptoms were comparatively more informative than others; for example, is often easily distracted ("Distracted") was the most informative parent- and teacher-rated symptom across the latent trait continuum. Clinical implications for the assessment of ADHD as well as relevant considerations for future revisions to diagnostic criteria are discussed.
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