title: Comparison of mother, father, and teacher reports of ADHD core symptoms in a sample of child psychiatric outpatients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore the significance of adding father ratings to mother and teacher ratings in the assessment of ADHD symptoms in children.
  
  
  METHODS
  The ADHD Rating Scale-IV, the Child Behavior Checklist, and the Teacher Report Form were filled out by all three informants for a sample of 48 clinically referred children (79% boys) aged 6 to 15 (M = 10.1) years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Correspondence between father and teacher reports on ADHD-specific symptoms (intraclass correlation coefficient [ICC] = .38) exceeded that between mothers and teachers (ICC = .23). Fathers rated their children as having fewer problems than did mothers and teachers on Total scale scores and the Inattention subscale of the ADHD Rating Scale-IV. Mother ratings were more sensitive to an ADHD diagnosis, whereas father ratings better predicted an ADHD diagnosis requiring the two-setting criterion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The choice of parent informant and informant combination had a considerable impact on parent-teacher concordance and estimates of ADHD symptoms and subtypes in the child.
authors.affiliation: 1Kristiansund Hospital, Møre & Romsdal Health Trust, Norway.
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sollie
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Larsson
authors.forename: Willy-Tore
authors.initials: WT
authors.lastname: Mørch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D005178:Faculty; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D010045:Outpatients / Q000523:psychology; D063189:Symptom Assessment