AUTHOR=Alhossein Abdulkarim , Abaoud Abdulrahman Abdullah , Becker David , Aldabas Rashed , Bakhiet Salaheldin Farah , Al Jaffal Mohammed , Alsufyani Manar , Abdu Elrahim Nagda Mohamed , Alzrayer Nouf TITLE=Psychometric Properties of ADHD Rating Scale—5 for Children and Adolescents in Sudan—School Version JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=13 YEAR=2022 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.883578 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.883578 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=

The ADHD Rating Scale—5 for Children and Adolescents, School Version, has been adopted and validated to be used in assessing ADHD among school children within Western contexts. However, there are few assessment tools in use for identifying ADHD characteristics in children in Sudan. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of this rating scale in the context of Sudan. To accomplish this, data were collected on a sample of 3,742 school-aged children and adolescents as reported by their teachers. Psychometric properties can be classified as very good, with very high reliability (>0.90), and high construct validity tested by exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Thus, the ADHD Rating Scale—5 for Children and Adolescents, School Version, is valid, reliable, and suitable to use for assessing ADHD symptoms among children and adolescents in the Sudanese context.