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

P Retz-Junginger; W Retz; D Blocher; H G Weijers; G E Trott; P H Wender; M Rössler

doi:10.1007/s00115-001-1215-x

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

Nervenarzt. 2002 Sep;73(9):830-8. doi: 10.1007/s00115-001-1215-x.

[Article in German]

Authors

P Retz-Junginger¹, W Retz, D Blocher, H G Weijers, G E Trott, P H Wender, M Rössler

Affiliation

¹ Institut für gerichtliche Psychologie und Psychiatrie der Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.

PMID: 12215873
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-001-1215-x

Abstract

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.

Publication types

English Abstract

MeSH terms

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