Stability of mothers' recall of the age of onset of their child's attention and hyperactivity problems.
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.
Green
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SM
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, PA.
Loeber
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Lahey
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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