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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Atten Disord. 2015 Dec 22;22(6):571–580. doi: 10.1177/1087054715618791

TABLE 4:

Wender-Utah Rating Scales Compared to “Gold Standard” Norm-Based MINI Criteria for persistent Adult ADHD Case Definition

WURS criteria Sensitivity Specificity
Adult symptom score exceeded 2.0 standard deviations above the mean† 69.1% (47/68) 77.4% (127/164)
Adult symptom score exceeded 2.0 standard deviations above the mean†
and
Childhood symptom score exceeded 2.0 standard deviations above the mean† 		67.6% (46/68) 78.0% (128/164)
Adult symptom score exceeded 2.0 standard deviations above the mean‡
and
Childhood symptom score exceeded 2.0 standard deviations above the mean† 		50.0% (34/68) 88.4% (145/164)
†

Using the mean and standard deviation from published norms for the adult and childhood symptom scores(Ward et al., 1993)

‡

Using the mean and standard deviation for the adult symptom scores from the participating non-ADHD controls