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ADHD Diagnosis: The Role of Parents

Parental Stress A Factor in ADHD Diagnosis is the headline of an article on Health Sentinel. Its covering a research paper that hasn’t been published yet that looks at how parents and teachers differ in rating children’s behavior.
The study was to examine the agreement of parents and teachers in ADHD symptoms and examine the association between parenting stress and depressed mood on these symptoms.
The authors found that, ‘ … parents and teachers do not fully agree. Especially for hyperactive/impulsive symptoms, agreement between parents and teachers was low.’ They also found that parenting stress and not depressed mood, ‘to be systematically and significantly associated between agreement raters of inattentive, hyperactive/impulsive and oppositional behavior.’
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