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. 2023 Mar 27;2023(3):CD009885. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009885.pub3

5. General behaviour rating scales.

Name of scale Abbreviation Reference
Achenbach Child Behaviour Checklist CBCL Achenbach 1991a
Achenbach’s Teacher Report ATRF Achenbach 1991b; Achenbach 2001
ADHD Rating Scale ADHD‐RS DuPaul 1991a
ADHD School Observation Code ADHD‐SOC Gadow 1996
Barkley Scales, Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale Barkley 1991a
Before School Functioning Questionnaire BSFQ Faraone 2018
Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function BRIEF Gioia 2000
Child Attention Problems Scale CAP Barkley 1991
Child Attention Profile CAP Barkley 1988b
Child Behavior Checklist CBCL Achenbach 1991a
Child Health Questionnaire CHQ Landgraf 1998
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment, selected items CAPA Angold 1995
Children’s Psychiatric Rating Scale CPRS Fish 1985
Classroom Observation Code (Abikoff Classroom Observational System) COC Abikoff 1980
Code for Observing Social Activity COSA Sprafkin 1986
Conners' Child Behavior Scale UC‐CCBS Ladd 1996
Conners Early Childhood Behavior—Parent Short Response scale Conners 2009
Conners' Global Index Scale CGI‐S Conners 1998a
Conners’ Global Index ‐ Parent CGI‐P Conners 1997a
Conners' Global Index ‐ Teacher CGI‐T Conners 1998a
Conners', Loney and Milich Scale CLAM Milich 1980
Conners’ Parent Questionnaire CPQ Conners 1995
Conners’ Parent Rating Scale CPRS Conners 1998b
Conners’ Teacher Rating Scale CTRS Conners 1998a
Conners’ Teacher Rating Conduct Problems Miller 1997
Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale, Parent‐ and Teacher‐Rated DBS Mendelsohn 1978
Disruptive Behavior Disorders Rating Scale DBD Silva 2005b
Groninger Behaviour Observation Scale GOO and GBO Van der Meere 1999b
Groninger Behaviour Checklists, Parent and Teacher Versions of the abbreviated Groninger GGGS and GGBS Van der Meere 1999b
Hillside Behavior Rating Scale HBRS Gittleman‐Klein 1976
Home Situations Questionnaire HSQ Barkley 1987
Home Situations Questionnaire ‐ Revised HSQ‐R DuPaul 1992
Humphrey’s Teacher Self‐Control Rating Scale TSCRS Humphrey 1982
Hyperactivity Index from the Conners Revised Teacher Rating Scale CTRS‐R‐Hyperactivity Index Goyette 1978
Impairment Rating Scale IRS Fabiano 2006
Inpatient Global Rating Scale, Revised IGRS Conners 1985
Inpatient Global Rating Scale, Somatic factor IGRS‐S Conners 1985
IOWA Conners' Rating Scale, Oppositional/Defiant (O/D) subscales IOWA‐O/D subscales Loney 1982
Nisonger Child Behavior Rating Form NCBRF Aman 1996
Paired Associates Learning PAL Wechsler 1945
Parent Global Assessment for Improvement PGA McGough 2006a
Parent Rating of Evening and Morning Behavior‐Revised, Morning PREMP‐R AM Sutton 2003
Parent Rating of Evening and Morning Behavior‐Revised, Evening PREMP‐R PM Sutton 2003
Peer Conflict Scale PCS Marsee 2007
Personality Inventory for Children PIC Lachar 1986
School Situations Questionnaire SSQ Barkley 1987
School Situations Questionnaire ‐ Revised SSQ‐R DuPaul 1992
Retrospective Modified Overt Aggression Scale R‐MOAS Bladder 2009
Strengths and Weaknesses of ADHD Symptoms and Normal Behavior Scale, Parent and Teacher SWAN Swanson 2006; Polderman 2007
Subjective Treatment Emergent Symptom Scale STESS‐R Guy 1976
Swanson, Nolan and Pelham, Fourth Edition SNAP‐IV Bussing 2008
Teachers Report Form TRF Achenbach 1991b
Telephone Interview Probe (Parent and Teacher) TIP Corkum 2007
Vanderbilt ADHD rating scales: Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Parent Rating Scale and Vanderbilt ADHD Diagnostic Teacher Rating Scale VADPRS and VADTRS Wolraich 2003
Wahler, House and Stambaugh’s Ecobehavioral Assessment System ECO Wahler 1976
The Weekly Parent Ratings of Evening and Morning Behaviour WREMB‐R Kelsey 2004
Werry‐Weiss‐Peters Activity Rating Scale WWP Routh 1978
Woodcock‐Johnson Achievement Battery WJ‐III Ach Woodcock 2001
ADHD: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder