Clinical trial NCT01260792: Children and Parents With ADHD and Related Disorders
Official title: Validation and Norms for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Scales in Children and Adults. Description of Associated Factors.
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: General Population
TDAH
Children Aged 5 to 18 Years
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-12-15
Enrollment: 2600
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 5
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Two non-independant study groups: children aged 5 to 18, and at least one of their parents

Brief summary: Almost all rating scales for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are not validated in France. This clearly hampers the development of the diagnosis and the monitoring of patients but also research in this domain. This study is conceived to collect data in the general population of children aged from 4 to 18 years in public schools in the city of Nice.

Children are pseudo-randomly selected from classes of randomly selected schools in the city of Nice (France). Teachers fill out questionnaires using a dedicated secured website, and ask parents to fill out a similar set of questionnaires regarding their child's behaviour at home. Since ADHD has a strong genetic components, parents are also asked to fill out questionnaires regarding their own behaviour at adulthood and in childhood retrospectively.

Additionally, known factors related to ADHD and other disorders as well as other putative factors are tested in the epidemiologic study.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Child known for the teacher for at least three months so that his evaluation Reflect most faithfully possible the usual behavior of the child,
* Child having the Frenchman for mother tongue to avoid the consequences on him Behavior of a linguistic obstacle,
* Authorization to use the data signed by at least one of the parents of the child and by the very child when he is old at least of six years.
* Parents speaking and reading the Frenchman.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Child known to follow a specific treatment of a disorder(confusion)attentional with / without Hyperactivity-impulsiveness (eg. Ritaline Ò, Ritaline Ò LP, Arranged Ò LP, Strattera Ò) Whatever is its duration. Indeed, a selection on this criterion would introduce a way Major which(who) would return the less reliable results(profits) of the study.
* Child presenting a known neurological or psychiatric disorder, or a deficit Intellectual because the attentional disorders(confusions), the psychomotor excitement and The impulsiveness can be symptoms inherent to the other pathologies Neurological and\\or psychiatric.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Validity of studied instruments
timeFrame: at time=0
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nice
country: France
facility: CHU de Nice
Study officials:
affiliation: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
name: Hervé CACI, PH
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Caci HM, Morin AJ, Tran A. Prevalence and correlates of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults from a French community sample. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2014 Apr;202(4):324-32. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000126.
citation: Morin AJ, Tran A, Caci H. Factorial Validity of the ADHD Adult Symptom Rating Scale in a French Community Sample: Results From the ChiP-ARD Study. J Atten Disord. 2016 Jun;20(6):530-41. doi: 10.1177/1087054713488825. Epub 2013 May 31.
citation: Caci HM, Morin AJ, Tran A. Teacher Ratings of the ADHD-RS IV in a Community Sample: Results From the ChiP-ARD Study. J Atten Disord. 2016 May;20(5):434-44. doi: 10.1177/1087054712473834. Epub 2013 Feb 19.