Charma Peer Response
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- Peer response to Charma
- The current facility where I am completing my clinical rotation treats a lot of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) patients from childhood to adulthood. When a child (6-12 y/o) comes to the clinic with concerns of ADHD symptoms, parents and teacher accomplish a form, namely the Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale (VADPRS) and the Vanderbilt Assessment Scale – Teacher informant. It is a rating scale that is developed to assist a clinician in determining potential ADHD symptoms by having the parent recall the child’s behavior in the past 6 months. It also screens other neurodevelopmental disorders such as Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Conduct Disorder (CD), anxiety, and depression (Anderson et al., 2022).Basically, The VADPRS is a 55-item parent-report assessment for ADHD (18 items), ODD (8 items), CD (14 items), and anxiety/depression (7 items). It also includes an eight-item school performance and social functioning subscale. Answers are rated using a 4-point Likert scale (never to very often) while performance is graded based on a 5-point Likert scale (problematic to above average). It also identifies the type of ADHD (Inattentive, hyperactive/impulsive, and combines) based on the score.Another resource that is being utilized is the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 and 2 (GAD-7 & GAD-2) that is used in assisting clinicians in the diagnosis of anxiety disorders encountered in primary care settings (Sapra et al., 2020). The GAD-7 tool is a validated 7-item tool while the GAD-2 covers the first two questions in the GAD-7 which are critical component of any anxiety disorders. It is easy to administer and yields a good sensitivity and specificity in diagnosing common anxiety disorder.References:Anderson, N., Feldman, J., Kolko, D., Pilkonis, P., Lindhiem, O. (2022). National norms for the vanderbilt ADHD diagnostic parent rating scale in children. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 47(6), 652-661. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsab132.Sapra, A., Bhandari, P., Sharma, S., Chanpura, T., Lopp, L. (2020). Using generalized anxiety disorder-2 (GAD-2) and GAD-7 in a primary care setting. Cureus, 12(5). doi: 10.7759/cureus.8224.less
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