Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 31(2), 210-218.Structural abnormalities that have been observed in children, adolescents and adults with ADHD versus individuals without ADHD include: lower grey matter density 1-3 white matter abnormalities 4,5 reduced total brain volume and volume of some brain structures 1,6-8,28 delayed cortical maturation in children and adolescents 9-11 and reduced cortical thickness in adults. Teacher ratings of DSM-III-R symptoms for the disruptive behavior disorders. Disruptive Behaviour Disorder (DBD) Rating Scale for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Normative Values and Percentile Charts for Nigerian Children Aged 6 to 15 Years. Pakistan Journal of Psychological Research, 26(2), 149. Translation and adaptation of disruptive behaviour disorder rating scale. Disruptive Behavior Disorder (DBD) Rating Scale for Georgian Population.
The rating scale is available as a free download, permission is not required, and access is unrestricted.īzhalava, V., & Inasaridze, K. The tool can be accessed from a number of reputable websites including Researchgate and The Center for School Mental Health website as provided-And-Google-Doc-Link-to-Measures-Saved.pdf The DBD Rating Scale demonstrates good internal consistency for the DSM-III-R categories for Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder with coefficient alphas of.
The study also noted that within the elementary school age range oppositional and certain CD symptoms demonstrated a high degree of covariation in the observations by teachers. It is anticipated by the authors that the parent rating scale will have a higher predictive power on the CD symptoms. Due to high teacher ratings of “don’t know”, conduct disorder was found to have lower predictive power. Combinations of ODD symptoms demonstrated very high predictive power. Conditional probability analysis revealed several prominent symptoms of ADHD had poor predictive power contrastively combinations of symptoms from the two ADHD factors had good predictive power. A factor analysis revealed three factors: one reflecting ODD and a number of CD symptoms, one comprised of ADHD impulsivity/overactivity symptoms and one on which ADHD symptoms of inattention loaded highly. Criterion and construct validity was found to be satisfactory. The DBD rating scale was also used to generate normative values and percentile charts for Nigerian children.Ī validation study used a sample of 931 boys that attended regular classrooms aged 5-14 years. In addition the tool was translated into Georgian using back translation back-translation. The DBD rating scale has been translated and adapted for the assessment of childhood behavioural problems in Pakistani children. The second method involves comparing the target child’s factor scores on the DBD Rating Scale to established norms. The first method involves counting symptoms for each disorder using the Disruptive Behaviour Disorders (DBD) rating scale. There are two ways to determine if a child meets the criteria for DSM diagnoses of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or Conduct Disorder. The DBD rating scale can be used to aid in diagnosis of children in regular classroom settings. Teachers also have the option to check “don’t know” for any item. Each item is rated on a four-point scale ranging from not at all (0) to very much (3). These items relate directly to the 36 DSM-III-R diagnostic criteria for Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and are randomly ordered across diagnostic categories. The DBD rating scale consists of 42 items related to symptoms of Conduct disorder (16 items), ODD (8 items), ADHD-Inattention (9 items), ADHD- hyperactivity/ Impulsivity (9 items). In addition, all three disruptive behaviour disorder categories were included in the new DBD rating scale. The DSM-III-R brought changes to the diagnostic criteria for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and so the authors sought to create a new teacher rating scale to reflect these amendments that would be comparable to the original SNAP rating scale in its effectiveness for providing information required to aid in the diagnostic process. The SNAP listed the DSM-III symptoms of attention-deficit disorder (ADD) in a rating scale format.
The DBD rating scale was initially created to further build upon an existing tool created by the same authors, the Swanston, Nolan and Pelham (SNAP) rating scale. The DBD parent/teacher rating scale is a screening tool designed to aid in the diagnostic process for a number of child psychopathologies, particularly externalising disorders.