Wender Utah rating scale. The short-version for the assessment of the attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults

This work presents a statistical analysis of the German version of the Wender Utah rating scale (WURS) for the retrospective diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. Data were obtained from 703 subjects. Item selection according to item-total correlation scores, freque...

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Published in:Nervenarzt 2002-09, Vol.73 (9), p.830-838
Main Authors: Retz-Junginger, P, Retz, W, Blocher, D, Weijers, H G, Trott, G E, Wender, P H, Rössler, M
Format: Article
Language:ger
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - diagnosis
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - psychology
Child
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Female
Germany
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Personality Inventory - statistics & numerical data
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Retrospective Studies
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Summary:This work presents a statistical analysis of the German version of the Wender Utah rating scale (WURS) for the retrospective diagnosis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults. Data were obtained from 703 subjects. Item selection according to item-total correlation scores, frequency, and plausibility led to a short version of the scale that includes 21 items with item-total correlations from 0.19 to 0.61. Retest reliability of the WURS-k was r=0.9.
ISSN:0028-2804
DOI:10.1007/s00115-001-1215-x