[What is the value of the Conners Teacher Questionnaire for clinical research and practice?].
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Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity↗
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W Deimel
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Follow-up investigation of family relations in patients with anorexia nervosa.
In a group of 22 formerly anorectic inpatients (follow-up 3.8 years after treatment) and in a control group of 24 paralleled young women, the subjective perception of the family structure was assessed using the "Subjective Family Image (SFI)", in order to investigate the question whether the family structure of former anorectics differs from the controls and whether individual development of the former inpatients is associated with the experienced family structure. Empirical results are in favor of the following two hypotheses: 1) Compared to the control group, formerly anorectic inpatients experience family relationships as more complicated and less satisfying. The quality of family relationships in the patient group is reduced, even at the time of follow-up. 2) Individual outcome (individual course of the illness) and quality of family relationships at time of follow-up are associated. Patients with a good outcome experience family relationships as more positive than patients with a poor outcome. The accordance of these findings to other empirical results and their implications for clinical practice are discussed.
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Familial aggregation of spelling disability.
This study examined the familial aggregation of spelling disability in a sample of 32 German school-aged children and their relatives. The influence of two different diagnostic criteria (low-achievement criterion, and regression-based IQ-discrepancy criterion) on the rate of affectedness was investigated. Results revealed that 52.3-61.9% of the sibs and 26-34% of the parents were spelling disabled. Little evidence was found for an influence of the diagnostic criterion on the rate of affectedness.
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[Effect of an oligo-antigen diet on the behavior of hyperkinetic children].
The influence of an oligoantigenic diet on different dimensions of the behavior of 21 children diagnosed as having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was examined. Treatment effects were assessed with three subjective measures (two questionnaires and an interview) and three objective measures (two attention tests and actometer). The study was divided into three phases: baseline, diet and provocation, each lasting three weeks. A crossover design was used. A significant effect was found for the subjective measures, but not for the objective measures. The results are discussed in terms of possible types of effects, e. g. rater effects and environmental effects. It may be that the oligoantigenic diet influences only certain dimensions of hyperactivity.
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity↗
[Reliability and validity of the German version of the Youth Self Report].
The aim of the present study was to investigate certain aspects of the reliability and validity of a German version of the Youth Self-Report (total behavior problem score) and to establish norms. In a sample of 252 patients from various child and adolescent psychiatric services and in an unselected sample of 1343 students from nearby schools high coefficients of internal consistency and split-half reliability (> 0.9) were obtained. An additional 105 students were tested and then retested after 5 weeks and again the rank correlations were high (boys: 0.86; girls: 0.90). The patients had higher total problem scores than the non-patients matched for age, sex, socioeconomic status, type of school and status as a foreigner. Patients with a diagnosis on axis 1 (psychiatric syndrome) or axis 5 (abnormal psychosocial situations) of the Multi-axial Classification Scheme were more maladjusted (higher total behavior problem score) than those without such a diagnosis. As expected, the score for the inpatients (N = 99) was higher than for the outpatients (N = 153). Because of the encouraging results, which justify further use of the Youth Self-Report, norms for the total behavior problem score (T-scores, percentiles) were calculated separately for the boys (N = 2085) and girls (N = 2119) from the general population (10-17 years of age).
Adolescent↗