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Evaluation of psychometric properties and factorial structure of ADHD module of K-SADS-PL in children from rural Kenya
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Objective
We determined the reliability of The Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School- Age Children–Present and Lifetime (K-SADS-PL) for screening and diagnosing ADHD in children.
Method
K-SADS-PL was administered to 2,074 children in the community. Psychometric properties, factorial structure, and clinical validity of K-SADS-PL in screening or diagnosis of ADHD were examined.
Results
Internal consistency was excellent for items in the screening interview (Macdonald’s Omega [ω] = 0.89; 95% confidence interval [CI] [0.87, 0.94]) and diagnostic supplement (ω = 0.95; 95% CI [0.92, 0.99]). The standardized coefficients for items in the screening interview were acceptable (0.59-0.85), while fit indices for single factorial structure reached acceptable levels. Screening items were associated with high sensitivity (97.8%; 95% CI [97.2, 98.5%]) and specificity (94.0%; 95% CI [93.0, 95.0%]) for diagnosis of ADHD in the supplement. The test-retest and interinformant reliability as measured by intraclass correlation coefficient was good for most of the items.
Conclusion
This large study shows that K-SADS-PL can be reliably used to screen and diagnose ADHD in children in Kenya.
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- Journal of Attention Disorders More from this journal
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-02
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1557-1246
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1087-0547
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29392964
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English
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pubs:824331
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uuid:9346ca42-8cdd-4257-9227-56f3b4ee83bd
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pubs:824331
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824331
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2018-10-02
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- 2018
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- © The Author(s) 2018. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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