ADHD Participation Profile

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The aim of the study was to quantify the parent’s perception of level of difficulty the child with diagnosis of ADHD is facing during participation of the daily chores. We additionally wanted to find out which are task which are bothering the parents the most. The present study was done to determine validity and reliability newly drafted questionnaire viz. ADHD Participation Profile. This questionnaire is proposed to assess the degree of participation in children with a diagnosis of ADHD from parent’s viewpoint. To certain extent our study also represented the prevalence of ADHD, though it was not our objective to find it. Regarding the role of the newly developed ADHD Participation Profile, we recruited the kids within the age group of 5 …show more content…

This might be because of fewer items related to participation in daily life in Socialization Section of SPM. Our assumption that Socialization and level of Participation might be correlated positively might be incorrect. In Participation Profile, we collected data from several domains other than related to socialization. Though we did not probe, other domain might have better correlation like interpersonal interaction and relationship domain of Participation profile might have good association with Socialization Section of SPM. We cause to agree that Socialization and Participation are different …show more content…

It consisted of the behaviors which are required for healthy interaction with family members and significant others. These are main determinant of the of a good or bad child in the social context. Factor IV consisted of items related to the communication. Parents want the child to participate in discussion. At home parents expect the child to take part in cleaning living area. This is related to organization of behavior, keeping the things neatly and is considered the sign of maturity. Thus these 20 items represented the level of participation according to the parent’s perspective in the present population. The factors like age, gender, culture, socio ecomic status and family expectation will have impact on the perceived level of difficulty by the parents. The Child and Adolescent Scale of Participation (CASP)© (Gary Bedell, 2011) has similar items for measuring participation. There are few additional items that are also included. The items are not included for children with diagnosis of ADHD only. The items are • Family chores • Moving in and around

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