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Published in final edited form as: Childs Nerv Syst. 2010 Jul 23;27(2):10.1007/s00381-010-1230-y. doi: 10.1007/s00381-010-1230-y

Table 5.

Parent-reported pedsPCF item bank (pedsPCF)

Item stem	Rating scale^a
It is hard for your child to find his/her way to a place that he/she has visited several times before	Frequency
Your child has trouble remembering where he/she put things, like his/her watch or his/her homework	Frequency
Your child has trouble remembering the names of people he/she has just met	Frequency
Your child is able to keep his/her mind on things like homework or reading	Frequency
It is hard for your child to take notes in class	Intensity
It is hard for your child to learn new things	Intensity
It is hard for your child to understand pictures that show how to make something	Intensity
It is hard for your child to pay attention to something boring he/she has to do	Intensity
It is hard for your child to pay attention to one thing for more than 5–10 min	Frequency
Your child has trouble recalling the names of things	Frequency
Your child has trouble keeping track of what he/she is doing if he/she gets interrupted	Frequency
It is hard for your child to do more than one thing at a time	Frequency
Your child forgets what his/her parents or teachers ask him/her to do	Frequency
Your child walks into a room and forgets what he/she wanted to get or do	Frequency
Your child has trouble remembering the names of people he/she knows	Frequency
It is hard for your child to add or subtract numbers in his/her head	Intensity
Your child has trouble remembering the date or day of the week	Frequency
When your child has a big project to do, he/she has trouble deciding where to start	Frequency
Your child has to contact his/her friends for homework he/she forget	Frequency
Your child has a hard time keeping track of his/her homework	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child forgets to bring things to and from school that he/she needs for homework	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child forgets what he/she is going to say	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child has to read things several times to understand them	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child reacts slower than most people his/her age when he/she plays games	Intensity and frequency^b
It is hard for your child to find the right words to say what he/she means	Intensity and frequency^b
It takes your child longer than other people to get his/her school work done	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child forgets things easily	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child has to use written lists more often than other people his/her age so he/she will not forget things	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child has trouble remembering to do things like school projects or chores	Intensity and frequency^b
It is hard for your child to concentrate in school	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child has trouble paying attention to the teacher	Intensity and frequency^b
Your child has to work really hard to pay attention or he/she makes mistakes	Intensity and frequency^b

Frequency: 1=none of the time, 2=a little of the time, 3=some of the time, 4=most of the time, 5=all of the time. Intensity: 1=not at all, 2=a little bit, 3=somewhat, 4=quite a bit, 5=very much

No local dependency is found for items that share the same item stem but are measured by both frequency and intensity types of rating scales. Therefore, both ratings are retained