Al Jaffal Mohammed, Becker David, Alhossein Abdulkarim, Bakhiet Salaheldin Farah, Aldabas Rashed, Abaoud Abdulrahman, Abdu Elrahim Nagda Mohamed, Alharthi Hanan
King Saud University, College of Education, Department of Special Education, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Chemnitz University of Technology, Department of Psychology, Chemnitz, Germany.
Front Psychiatry. 2024 Jun 11;15:1365189. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1365189. eCollection 2024.
There is a lack of universal scales for tracking ADHD symptoms in the home for children/adolescents in the Sudanese context. For this reason, this study aimed to validate the ADHD Rating Scale-5 for Children and Adolescents, Home Version for use by parents in Sudan to assess their children for ADHD. This scale is widely used by parents to assess their children aged 5-17 years for ADHD in the home environment. The current study involved 3,742 Sudanese parents of school-aged children and adolescents, each asked to complete the instrument for one child in their family; only one parent per family participated in the study. The authors then examined the psychometric properties of the scale from the completed assessments. The results indicated acceptable to high reliability for the total scale and both the symptom and impairment items. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated high external and construct validity when applying the scale to the Sudanese sample. the factor structure resembled that of the normative U.S. sample in terms of the number of extractable factors and the strength of factor loadings. Based on the results, this adaptation of the home version of the ADHD Scale-5 for Children and Adolescents is both valid and reliable for use by Sudanese parents in the home environment.
在苏丹的环境下，缺乏用于在家中追踪儿童/青少年多动症症状的通用量表。因此，本研究旨在验证《儿童与青少年多动症评定量表-5（家庭版）》，供苏丹的家长用来评估其子女是否患有多动症。该量表被家长广泛用于在家庭环境中评估5至17岁的子女是否患有多动症。本研究涉及3742名苏丹学龄儿童和青少年的家长，每位家长被要求为其家中的一个孩子填写该量表；每个家庭只有一位家长参与研究。作者随后从完成的评估中检验了该量表的心理测量特性。结果表明，总量表以及症状和损害项目的信度均可接受且较高。探索性和验证性因素分析表明，将该量表应用于苏丹样本时具有较高的外部效度和结构效度。在可提取因素的数量和因素负荷的强度方面，因素结构与美国标准样本相似。基于这些结果，《儿童与青少年多动症评定量表-5（家庭版）》的这种改编版本在家庭环境中供苏丹家长使用时是有效且可靠的。
