A Practical Measure of Impairment: Psychometric Properties  of the Impairment Rating Scale in Samples of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Two School-Based Samples

Fabiano, Gregory A.; Pelham, William E.; Waschbusch, Daniel A.; Gnagy, Elizabeth M.; Lahey, Benjamin B.; Chronis, Andrea M.; Onyango, Adia N.; Kipp, Heidi; Lopez-Williams, Andy; Burrows-MacLean, Lisa

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“…In terms of convergent validity, the IRS appears to correlate strongly with the DBD (rs ranging from .67 to .85). Further, the IRS was found to have moderate to high correlations when compared to other teacher instruments that measure impairment (Fabiano et al, 2006).…”

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confidence: 92%

“…2.4.2 The Impairment Rating Scale (IRS; Fabiano et al, 2006) The IRS is a broad-band scale that looks at several areas of impairment commonly associated with behavior disorders. The teacher version of the IRS consists of five items: two items relate to social functioning (with peers and with the teacher), two items relate to academics (academic progress and classroom functioning), and the last item asks the rater to consider if, overall, additional treatment or special services are required.…”

Section: Dependent Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sources of Bias in Teacher Ratings of Adolescents with ADHD

Schultz¹,

Evans²

2012

JEDP

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Best practice assessment of childhood ADHD includes behavior ratings from multiple sources across multiple environments. However, adolescents in secondary schools interact with several teachers each day, and research has shown that teacher perceptions of the same child can be highly inconsistent. As a result, rating scale data can be equivocal, depending on which teachers are selected. The intent of the present study was two-fold: 1) to assess the consistency between teacher behavior ratings of adolescents with ADHD, and 2) to explore predictors of rater leniency or severity (i.e., sources of bias). Results suggest that interrater reliability within our sample was moderate, consistent with previous research. Further, teacher characteristics, including sex and age, were related to biases on ratings of student hyperactivity-impulsivity. Specifically, women and younger teachers provided significantly more severe ratings on average than did men and older teachers. Implications for the interpretation and statistical norming of ADHD rating scales are discussed.

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Section: Dependent Measuresmentioning

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Sources of Bias in Teacher Ratings of Adolescents with ADHD

Schultz¹,

Evans²

2012

JEDP

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“…The measure also moderately correlates with objective measures of problematic behavior and predicts use of mental health and school services (Fabiano et al, 2006). This study took the sum score on three questions asking how the child's problems affect his/her relationships with friends, parents and the entire family.…”

Section: Measures Of Impairmentmentioning

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Subgroups of Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms

Slavin-Stewart

Boylan

Burke

2018

Journal of Personality Disorders

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This thesis examined the borderline personality disorder symptom profiles of teenage girls who were referred to a tertiary child and youth psychiatry clinic. Self-injury and unstable mood are key features of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) but are also associated with other disorders such as depression and anxiety disorders. The aim of the larger study was to determine whether BPD can be differentiated from other disorders in a highly comorbid adolescent sample who self-injure.To answer this question, individuals in our sample were grouped based on the pattern of BPD symptom endorsement using a latent class analysis. The subgroups that emerged from our The results indicated that only a small subset of teenage girls who presented with selfinjury and unstable mood met criteria for BPD. These girls represented a distinct and severely impaired group with high comorbidity. The subgroups that emerged from our sample provide guidance to clinicians regarding the likelihood of a personality disorder diagnosis in this population and the pattern of emotional difficulties of youth who self-injure.v

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“…Since our aim was to develop a new instrument meeting the above requirements, we evaluated the existing ones 13,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] for different age groups, taking into consideration time for administration, comprehensiveness (coverage of domains) and psychometric properties when available. From these, we have identified six different domains (family, learning and work, social activities, activities of daily living, self-perception and risky activities); four of them were selected for the GEDA instrument: family life, social life, self-perception and performance.…”

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Quantitative measurement of impairment in ADHD: perspectives for research and clinical practice

Fortes¹,

Serra-Pinheiro²,

Coutinho³

et al. 2014

Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (São Saulo)

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Background: Functional impairment is needed to make an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) diagnosis, but there is a paucity of instruments addressing this issue. Objective: Perform psychometric analysis of a functional impairment scale (FIE). Methods: A sample of 320 individuals, including ADHD probands, their siblings and parents, filled the FIE. We analyzed psychometric properties for the entire sample and age groups. Factor structure was determined by a principal component factor analysis, using oblique rotation with Kaiser normalization and Eigenvalues higher than 1. Cronbach's alpha and SpearmanBrown were calculated. Results: Family analysis revealed four components: a) "family life", b) "self-perception", c) "performance" and d) "social life". Adults' analysis revealed two components: a) "family life, social life and self-perception" and b) "performance". Children showed the domains: a) "performance and social life", b) "self-perception" and c) "family life" components. Cronbach's alpha were above 0.9 in all components. Discussion: Results revealed up to four domains depending on the group considered. Different life demands might explain the variability of domains on the groups.

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A Practical Measure of Impairment: Psychometric Properties of the Impairment Rating Scale in Samples of Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Two School-Based Samples

Cited by 593 publications

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Sources of Bias in Teacher Ratings of Adolescents with ADHD

Sources of Bias in Teacher Ratings of Adolescents with ADHD

Subgroups of Adolescent Girls With Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms

Quantitative measurement of impairment in ADHD: perspectives for research and clinical practice

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