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  title info:
    title: Health-related quality of life and family impact in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and co-morbid psychiatric conditions
  name:
    name part: Limbers, Christine Ashley.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Varni, James
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  name:
    name part: Heffer, Robert W.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent chronic disorders in childhood. The measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) can compliment ADHD behavior rating scales and provide a more comprehensive understanding of the impact of ADHD and its treatment on the child's overall daily functioning and well-being. The purpose of the current study was to assess HRQOL from the perspective of pediatric patient self-report and parent proxy-report and family impact from the perspective of parents in children with ADHD ages 5 to 18 years being seen at a Pediatric Psychiatric Clinic utilizing the PedsQL(TM) 4.0 Generic Core Scales and Family Impact Module. For all PedsQL(TM) 4.0 Generic Core Scales, pediatric patients with ADHD and their parents reported statistically significant worse HRQOL than healthy children, with large effect sizes across all domains. More impaired generic HRQOL was significantly correlated with more severe ADHD symptoms as measured by the NICHQ Vanderbilt Total ADHD Symptom Score for parent proxy-report but not child self-report. More impaired family functioning was significantly correlated with more severe ADHD symptoms. Intraclass Correlations (ICC) between pediatric patient self-report and parent proxy-report across the PedsQL(TM) 4.0 Generic Core Scales were in the poor to fair agreement range. These findings have implications for future research and clinical practice with pediatric patients with ADHD and co-morbid psychiatric conditions and their families. Given the large effect sizes reported between the present sample and healthy children across all HRQOL domains, it is important that interventions designed for children with ADHD and co-morbid psychiatric conditions not only address psychosocial difficulties, but also the physical impairments that may result from medications and/or co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses such as anxiety or depression. Given our finding that greater ADHD symptomatology was signifi…
  note: by Christine Ashley Limbers.
  note: "Major Subject: Psychology"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2011-08-09 15:09:44).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Doctor of Philosophy Texas A&M University 2010 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7737
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Dissertation)
  subject:
    topic: Major psychology
  subject:
    topic: ADHD
  subject:
    topic: pediatrics
  subject:
    topic: health-related quality of life
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7737
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 110818
    record change date: 20151202142318.0
    record identifier: in00002705266