An evaluation of the validity of the diagnostic category of attention deficit disorder.
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) replaced Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood as a category in DSM-III. This study evaluates the validity of the new terminology by determining whether clinical diagnoses of ADD could be predicted from scores on a number of widely used psychometric and behavioral instruments. Results suggest that ADD is an inadequately specified category. Some implications of this finding are considered.
D000124:Achievement; D001288:Attention; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011594:Psychometrics; D013663:Teaching