Validación del inventario exploratorio de síntomas de TDAH (IES-TDAH) ajustado al DSM-V

Introduction: The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and adolescence. Its symptoms are manifested in cognitive and behavioral areas, with important functional consequences. In adults, it has a high prevalence ranging fr...

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Autores:: Barceló-Martínez, Ernesto
León-Jacobus, Alexandra
Cortes-Peña, Omar
Valle-Córdoba, Stephany
FLOREZ NIÑO, YULIANA ANDREA

Tipo de recurso:: Article of journal

Fecha de publicación:: 2016

Institución:: Corporación Universidad de la Costa

Repositorio:: REDICUC - Repositorio CUC

Idioma:: spa

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Summary:	Introduction: The attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in childhood and adolescence. Its symptoms are manifested in cognitive and behavioral areas, with important functional consequences. In adults, it has a high prevalence ranging from 5 to 20%. The diagnosis is based on identifying symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity-impulsivity entered in the manual classification of mental disorders (DSM and ICD). Objective: To validate the scale IES- TDAH from the analysis of the levels of internal consistency and correlation levels with scales Gold Standard: Wender- Utah Rating Scale - WURS; Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-V1.1) and ICD-10 criteria. Methods: This research is generated from the design of an exploratory inventory of ADHD symptoms (IES-ADHD) from the theoretical construct about the disorder and the DSM-V. Followed design and validation content by judges, it was obtained a preliminary version applied to a pilot Abstract sample of 120 young people (60 men and 60 women) pertaining to institutions of higher education in the city of Barranquilla and whose ages ranged between 18 and 23 years. Results: Satisfactory results were obtained by finding a high level of reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.914) and also the criterion validity was obtained by analyzing the behavior of IES over other tests ADHD gold standard that showed high levels of correlation with the Wender-Utah Rating Scale (WURS) (r = 0.88), with ICD-10 criteria (r = 0.89), and with the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS-V1.1) (r = 0.898). Conclusions: We considered that the IES-ADHD constitutes an instrument that provides reliable data in the approach to the clinical diagnosis of ADHD in adults.

Validación del inventario exploratorio de síntomas de TDAH (IES-TDAH) ajustado al DSM-V

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