Clinical calibration in larger samples might show that a weighted version of the 18-question ASRS outperforms the six-question ASRS screener. Until that time, however, the unweighted screener should be preferred to the full ASRS, both in community surveys and in clinical outreach and case-finding initiatives.

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This report describes the World Health Organization Health and Med. 2003;45:156 -174)

Context: There is limited information that accounts for comorbidity on the impact of role disability associated with a wide range of mental and physical disorders in population-based samples.Objective: To estimate the comparative effects of common mental and physical conditions on role disability in the general population using a novel method that accounts for comorbidity.

ADHD is a common and costly workplace condition. Effectiveness trials are needed to estimate the region of interest of workplace ADHD screening and treatment programs.

Abstract-Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and seminonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school enrollment, is affected by a parent's recent death. We analyze data from 600,000 households from Indonesia's National Socioeconomic Survey (Susenas) during 1994-1996. We nd a parent's recent death has a large effect on a child's enrollment. We also use this shock to test several theories of intrahousehold allocation and nd little differential treatment based on the gender of the child or the deceased parent.

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