TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychometric properties of a new ADHD screening questionnaire
T2 - Parent report on the (potential) underlying explanation of inattention in their school-aged children
AU - Keulers, Esther H.H.
AU - Hurks, Petra P.M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Abbas Foundation [in Dutch: “Stichting Abbas Fonds”], which aims to stimulate the psychometric quality of psychological instruments. The authors want to thank all participating schools, teachers and parents for their cooperation, the internet research agency Flycatcher, and in particular April Boessen, for the pleasant and successful collaboration, and Robin Barenbrug, Michelle Jacobs, Silke Kellens, Caro Paffen, Christine Resch, Jeanine Rongen, Denise Stefens, Anke van Treek, Luca Visse and Amber Weijers for their invaluable contribution to recruitment and testing.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021/11/17
Y1 - 2021/11/17
N2 - The present study examined psychometric properties of a recently developed parent report screening questionnaire, i.e., Parent ADHD Screening questionnaire: Signaling the Core explanation underlying behavioral symptoms (PASSC). The PASSC aims to measure (1) ADHD symptoms and (2) what parents view to be the main underlying explanation(s) of these symptoms. The PASSC questions 3 (potential) underlying explanations based on the triple pathway model (TPM): i.e., time, cognition and/or motivation problems. Parents of 1166 Dutch children aged 4-12 filled in the PASSC, as well as 2 questionnaires measuring time, cognition and motivation (i.e., the FTF and the SPSRQ-C). Reliability of the PASSC is good, indicated by high internal consistency of the sumscores. Principal component analyses supported the distinction between inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms as defined in the DSM-5, and the distinction between the 3 TPM explanations given by parents for inattention, but not for hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms. The majority of parents selected one and the same explanation for inattention problems of their child, most often being cognition (31.2%) and motivation (28.2%). PASSC validity was further supported by positive associations between the explanation sumscores for inattention symptoms and other parent questionnaires measuring the same constructs (i.e., time, cognition and motivation; convergent validity), although we found no evidence for discriminant validity. Groups (based on age group, sex and ADHD diagnosis) differed on the PASSC sumscores in the expected directions. Concluding, the PASSC is a promising tool to assess a child's ADHD symptoms as well as the parent view on (potential) explanation(s) of inattention.
AB - The present study examined psychometric properties of a recently developed parent report screening questionnaire, i.e., Parent ADHD Screening questionnaire: Signaling the Core explanation underlying behavioral symptoms (PASSC). The PASSC aims to measure (1) ADHD symptoms and (2) what parents view to be the main underlying explanation(s) of these symptoms. The PASSC questions 3 (potential) underlying explanations based on the triple pathway model (TPM): i.e., time, cognition and/or motivation problems. Parents of 1166 Dutch children aged 4-12 filled in the PASSC, as well as 2 questionnaires measuring time, cognition and motivation (i.e., the FTF and the SPSRQ-C). Reliability of the PASSC is good, indicated by high internal consistency of the sumscores. Principal component analyses supported the distinction between inattention and hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms as defined in the DSM-5, and the distinction between the 3 TPM explanations given by parents for inattention, but not for hyperactivity-impulsivity symptoms. The majority of parents selected one and the same explanation for inattention problems of their child, most often being cognition (31.2%) and motivation (28.2%). PASSC validity was further supported by positive associations between the explanation sumscores for inattention symptoms and other parent questionnaires measuring the same constructs (i.e., time, cognition and motivation; convergent validity), although we found no evidence for discriminant validity. Groups (based on age group, sex and ADHD diagnosis) differed on the PASSC sumscores in the expected directions. Concluding, the PASSC is a promising tool to assess a child's ADHD symptoms as well as the parent view on (potential) explanation(s) of inattention.
KW - Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
KW - parent report
KW - psychometric properties
KW - neuropsychological heterogeneity
KW - screening
KW - ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
KW - DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
KW - FTF 5
KW - ATTRIBUTIONS
KW - PATHWAYS
KW - BEHAVIOR
KW - GENDER
U2 - 10.1080/09297049.2021.1937975
DO - 10.1080/09297049.2021.1937975
M3 - Article
C2 - 34114931
SN - 0929-7049
VL - 27
SP - 1117
EP - 1132
JO - Child Neuropsychology
JF - Child Neuropsychology
IS - 8
ER -