title: Stability of mothers' recall of the age of onset of their child's attention and hyperactivity problems.
abstract: The stability of mothers' recall of age of onset of attention deficit and hyperactive behaviors was assessed over a 1-year interval. The paper reports on which behaviors have the highest stability and the stability of a psychiatric diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactive disorder using different age cut-offs. The data showed a moderate degree of stability over a 1-year period, with school-related symptoms showing the least amount of change. An argument is made for keeping the current DSM-III-R diagnostic cut-off at age 6.
authors.affiliation: Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA.
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loeber
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Lahey
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D010553:Personality Development; D012189:Retrospective Studies