a Department of Biological and Medical Psychology , University of Bergen , Bergen , Norway.
Child Neuropsychol. 2014;20(6):677-91. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2013.855716. Epub 2013 Nov 14.
The Stroop Interference Test is widely used to assess the inhibition function; however, divergent results have emerged from meta-analyses in children with ADHD. This has led to conflicting results as to whether the Stroop test detects the level of inhibition in these children. We hypothesized that the general approach to include interference scores depending on response time causes conflicting results, whereas recordings of errors may prove a superior measure of the inhibition function in children with ADHD. In the present study, 39 children with an ADHD diagnosis, two subgroups with and without another comorbid mental health disorder, were compared with respect to their interference scores of response time and errors with two subgroups of children with no ADHD. The two subgroups comprised 33 children with another mental health disorder other than ADHD and 56 children with no psychiatric disorder. The between-group analyses detected a multivariate, marginal main effect of an ADHD diagnosis on the Stroop interference scores, and a univariate main effect of an ADHD diagnosis on the interference score of errors. Further, only the interference score of errors predicted significantly the parent reported scores on the Inhibit scale from the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function. These findings support that a Stroop interference score of errors is sensitive for inhibition problems in children with ADHD and encourages the use of Stroop versions including error recordings independent of response time.
斯特鲁普干扰测验被广泛用于评估抑制功能；然而，在 ADHD 儿童的荟萃分析中出现了不同的结果。这导致了关于斯特鲁普测试是否能检测出这些儿童抑制水平的争议。我们假设，根据反应时间纳入干扰分数的一般方法导致了相互矛盾的结果，而记录错误可能是 ADHD 儿童抑制功能的更好衡量标准。在本研究中，将 39 名 ADHD 诊断的儿童与具有和不具有另一种共患精神健康障碍的两个亚组进行比较，同时将他们的反应时和错误的干扰分数与两个亚组的无 ADHD 儿童进行比较。这两个亚组包括 33 名患有 ADHD 以外的另一种精神健康障碍的儿童和 56 名没有精神障碍的儿童。组间分析检测到，ADHD 诊断对斯特鲁普干扰分数有一个多变量的、边缘的主要影响，ADHD 诊断对错误的干扰分数有一个单变量的主要影响。此外，只有错误的干扰分数显著预测了来自行为评定量表的父母报告的抑制量表分数。这些发现支持了错误的斯特鲁普干扰分数在 ADHD 儿童的抑制问题上是敏感的，并鼓励使用包括独立于反应时间的错误记录的斯特鲁普版本。
