Validity and accuracy of the Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Self-Report Scale (ASRS) and the Wender Utah Rating Scale (WURS) symptom checklists in discriminating between adults with and without ADHD.

Erlend Joramo Brevik Astri Johansen Lundervold Jan Haavik Maj-Britt Posserud

Published in: Brain and behavior (2020)

The WURS and the ASRS both have high diagnostic accuracy. The short ASRS screener performed equally well as the full ASRS, whereas the WURS had the best discriminatory properties. The increased diagnostic accuracy may be due to the wider symptom range of the WURS and/or the retrospective childhood frame of symptoms.

Keyphrases

attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
autism spectrum disorder
working memory
childhood cancer
patient reported
sleep quality
depressive symptoms