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Original (1998): DuPaul, G.J., Power, T.J., Anastopoulos, A.D., & Reid, R. Preschool version (2007): K. E. McGoey, G. J. DuPaul, E. Haley, T. L. Shelton.
Cost to use
US$175.00 (price as of 2020).
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This measure is intended to assess ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents.
The authors indicate that this instrument could be used as a screening tool in the diagnostic process, for helping plan treatment programs, and to evaluate treatment progress/outcome. They make clear that it is NOT intended to be a diagnostic instrument on its own.
Children and adolescents ages 3-17.
Additional information to inform measure use
DuPaul et al. (1998a) provide a copy as an appendix. Mcgoey, DuPaul, Hayley, & Shelton (2007) provide a copy of the preschool version as an appendix in their article as well
Inattention (9 items) and Hyperactivity-impulsivity (9 items).
Original versions: 4-point Likert scale from 0 (never or rarely) to 3 (very often).
Preschool version: Likert scale from 0 (not
true at all) to 3 (very much true).
10-20 minutes.
Administered by a clinician.
The manual goes over how to score and interpret the results. It is scored and interpreted by hand.
The norms, reliability and validity statistics included in each measure profile are those reported by the author(s) of the measure. It is important to note that altering, adding or removing questions from a measure voids these reported statistics, possibly making the revised tool unreliable and invalid.
2,000 students between the ages of 4 and 20 years drawn from 22 school districts in the United States. The sample was selected to reflect as closely as possible the ethnic and geographic distributions from the 1990 U.S. Census. There are different score profiles for girls and boys, and age differences are presented as well. Zhang, Faries, Vowles, & Michelson (2005) extended these norms through a study done with participants from 11 European countries, as well as Australia, Israel, and South Africa, and found that results were consistent across nationalities. Reid et al. (1998) suggest that the scale may perform differently with different ethnic groups, but separate normative data are not provided.
Original version: Authors report internal consistencies of 0.88-0.96. Further studies have found alphas of 0.72-0.95. Inter-rater reliabilities were reported by the authors to have ranged from 0.40-0.45. Further studies have found better inter-rater reliabilities, ranging from 0.58-0.75. Test-retest correlations have been generally high, ranging from 0.73-0.96, which agrees with findings reported by the authors.
Preschool version: Authors report internal consistencies ranging from 0.85-0.95. Test-retest reliabilities were found by the authors to range from 0.93-0.96 for the Teacher version and from 0.80-0.87 for the Parent version.
Original version: The authors report extensive convergent/concurrent validities and these findings have been generally replicated by other studies. It also has moderate divergent validity. It has also been found to have good discriminative validity as it can reliably discriminate between controls and subjects with a diagnosis of ADHD, as well as between groups with differing severity of symptoms.
Preschool version: The authors report values ranging from 0.54 to 0.96 with all achieving statistical significance.
DuPaul, G.J., Anastopoulos, A.D., Power, T.J., Reid, R., Ikeda, M.J., & McGoey, K.E. (1998a). Parent ratings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity symptoms: Factor structure and normative data. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 20(1), 83-102.
DuPaul, G.J., Power, T.J., McGoey, K.E., Ikeda, M.J., & Anastopoulos, A.D. (1998b). Reliability and validity of parent and teacher ratings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 16, 55-68.
Faries, D.E., Yalcin, I., Harder, D., & Heiligenstein, J.H. (2001). Validation of the ADHD Rating Scale as a clinician administered and scored instrument. Journal of Attention Disorders, 5(2), 107-115.
McGoey, K.E., DuPaul, G.J., Haley, E., & Shelton, T.L. (2007). Parent and teacher ratings of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in preschool: The ADHD Rating Scale-IV Preschool Version. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 29, 269-276.
Power, T.J., Doherty, B.J., Panichelli-Mindel, S.M., Karustis, J.L., Eiraldi, R.B., Anastopoulos, A.D., & DuPaul, G.J. (1998). The predictive validity of parent and teacher reports of ADHD symptoms. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 20(1), 57-81.
Reid, R., DuPaul, G.J., Power, T.J., Anastopoulos, A.D., Rogers-Adkinson, D., Noll, M.-B., & Riccio, C. (1998). Assessing culturally different students for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder using behaviour rating scales. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 26(3), 187-198.
Zhang, S., Faries, D.E., Vowles, M., & Michelson, D. (2005). ADHD Rating Scale IV: Psychometric properties from a multinational study as a clinician-administered instrument. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 14(4), 186-201.
Wyrwich, K. W., Auguste, P., Yu, R., Zhang, C., Yu, S., DeWees, B., ... & Prasad, S. (2014). Psychometric Properties Of The Adhd Rating Scale-Iv (Adhd Rs-Iv) And Adult Adhd Self-Report Scale (Asrs) In A Phase 3b Clinical Trial Of Patients With Phenylketonuria. Value in Health, 17(3), A231.
Wyrwich, K. W., Auguste, P., Yu, R., Zhang, C., Dewees, B., Winslow, B., ... & Prasad, S. (2015). Evaluation of Neuropsychiatric Function in Phenylketonuria: Psychometric Properties of the ADHD Rating Scale-IV and Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale Inattention Subscale in Phenylketonuria. Value in Health.
