Table 3.

Items included in the sample pedsPCF short-form

	None of the time	A little of time	Some of the time	Most of the time	All of the time
1. Your child has to work really hard to pay attention or he/she makes mistakes	5	4	3	2	1
2. Your child forgets things easily	5	4	3	2	1
3. Your child has trouble remembering to do things like school projects or chores	5	4	3	2	1
4. Your child has trouble keeping track of what he/she is doing if he/she gets Interrupted	5	4	3	2	1
5. Your child has to use written lists more often than other people his/her age so he/she will not forget things	5	4	3	2	1
6. Your child has to read things several times to understand them	5	4	3	2	1
7. It is hard for your child to pay attention to one thing for more than 5–10 min	5	4	3	2	1

School-specific items are purposefully excluded from this short-form in order to maximize its generalizability