Journal article
Which factors impact on clinician-rated impairment in children with ADHD?
D Coghill, G Spiel, G Baldursson, M Döpfner, MJ Lorenzo, SJ Ralston, A Rothenberger, P Curatolo, S Dalsgaard, B Falissard, A Hervas, MF Le Heuzey, TS Nøvik, RR Pereira, U Preuss, P Rasmussen, AW Riley, HC Steinhausen, L Vlasveld
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | SPRINGER | Published : 2006
Abstract
Objectives: To describe the associations between a range of demographic, family and clinical factors and clinician-rated measures of global impairment in children with ADHD symptoms obtained at the baseline assessment in the ADHD Observational Research in Europe (ADORE) study. Methods: Global impairment was measured by clinicians using the Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGIS) scale and the Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS).Associations with independent variables were investigated using forward-stepwise regression models. Results: For the CGI-S and CGAS analyses, complete data sets were available for 1,265 and 985 children, respectively. The baseline mean CGI-S score in this pop..
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