Screening for ADHD

[Perrotfish]

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Just curious, how many of you incorporate computer software for ADHD testing into your practice for monitoring a patient's attention span? If you've used it, when will you allow it to trump the clinical reports you're getting? If you got a report back from a computer program showing the patient has an adequate attention span but the parents/teachers are still going nuts, do you guys think its reasonable to call the child's issues behavioral rather than attention span based?

 

[Socrates25]

Just curious, how many of you incorporate computer software for ADHD testing into your practice for monitoring a patient's attention span? If you've used it, when will you allow it to trump the clinical reports you're getting? If you got a report back from a computer program showing the patient has an adequate attention span but the parents/teachers are still going nuts, do you guys think its reasonable to call the child's issues behavioral rather than attention span based?

Need to know more about the computer test before I would rely on it. Right now all the computer systems I've seen are proprietary and "black box" meaning you dont have access to the research/baseline data that you need in order to tell if the tests are legit or not.

It's been awhile since I've done a literature review on this subject, maybe there's some new stuff out there I dont know about that is actually validated.

For all their flaws, at least the Vanderbilt forms have some population statistics behind it. I need to see how the computer models stack up first before I would use it as a stand-alone test for ADHD. Until then, I'm going to use the Vanderbilts.

 

[Cuthbert]

Just curious, how many of you incorporate computer software for ADHD testing into your practice for monitoring a patient's attention span? If you've used it, when will you allow it to trump the clinical reports you're getting? If you got a report back from a computer program showing the patient has an adequate attention span but the parents/teachers are still going nuts, do you guys think its reasonable to call the child's issues behavioral rather than attention span based?

I don't use them at all. Which software programs are you referring to?

We typically use a combination of Vanderbilt and/or Conners'. Technically speaking, the Vanderbilt was not designed for preschool children. It can still be used for that age however. With that said, I would have to be hard pressed to put any preschool child on stimulants no matter what the new recommendations.