The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The International Multi-centre ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) project with 11 participating centres from 7 European countries and Israel has collected a large behavioural and genetic database for present and future research. Behavioural data...
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doaj-a5dfa71a1523439b95fea50b061454bd2020-11-25T00:18:44ZengBMCBMC Psychiatry1471-244X2011-04-011115510.1186/1471-244X-11-55The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligenceRoeyers HerbertOades Robert DMiranda AnaManor IrisGill MichaelEisenberg JaquesEbstein Richard PBuitelaar Jan KBanaschewski TobiasAsherson PhilipMüller Ueli CRothenberger AribertSergeant Joseph ASonuga-Barke Edmund JSThompson MargaretFaraone Stephen VSteinhausen Hans-Christoph<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The International Multi-centre ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) project with 11 participating centres from 7 European countries and Israel has collected a large behavioural and genetic database for present and future research. Behavioural data were collected from 1068 probands with ADHD and 1446 unselected siblings. The aim was to describe and analyse questionnaire data and IQ measures from all probands and siblings. In particular, to investigate the influence of age, gender, family status (proband vs. sibling), informant, and centres on sample homogeneity in psychopathological measures.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Conners' Questionnaires, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires, and Wechsler Intelligence Scores were used to describe the phenotype of the sample. Data were analysed by use of robust statistical multi-way procedures.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Besides main effects of age, gender, informant, and centre, there were considerable interaction effects on questionnaire data. The larger differences between probands and siblings at home than at school may reflect contrast effects in the parents. Furthermore, there were marked gender by status effects on the ADHD symptom ratings with girls scoring one standard deviation higher than boys in the proband sample but lower than boys in the siblings sample. The multi-centre design is another important source of heterogeneity, particularly in the interaction with the family status. To a large extent the centres differed from each other with regard to differences between proband and sibling scores.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>When ADHD probands are diagnosed by use of fixed symptom counts, the severity of the disorder in the proband sample may markedly differ between boys and girls and across age, particularly in samples with a large age range. A multi-centre design carries the risk of considerable phenotypic differences between centres and, consequently, of additional heterogeneity of the sample even if standardized diagnostic procedures are used. These possible sources of variance should be counteracted in genetic analyses either by using age and gender adjusted diagnostic procedures and regional normative data or by adjusting for design artefacts by use of covariate statistics, by eliminating outliers, or by other methods suitable for reducing heterogeneity.</p> http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/55ADHDmulti-centre studysibling designcentre effects |
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Roeyers Herbert Oades Robert D Miranda Ana Manor Iris Gill Michael Eisenberg Jaques Ebstein Richard P Buitelaar Jan K Banaschewski Tobias Asherson Philip Müller Ueli C Rothenberger Aribert Sergeant Joseph A Sonuga-Barke Edmund JS Thompson Margaret Faraone Stephen V Steinhausen Hans-Christoph The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence BMC Psychiatry ADHD multi-centre study sibling design centre effects |
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Roeyers Herbert Oades Robert D Miranda Ana Manor Iris Gill Michael Eisenberg Jaques Ebstein Richard P Buitelaar Jan K Banaschewski Tobias Asherson Philip Müller Ueli C Rothenberger Aribert Sergeant Joseph A Sonuga-Barke Edmund JS Thompson Margaret Faraone Stephen V Steinhausen Hans-Christoph |
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The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence |
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The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence |
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The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence |
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The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence |
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The impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre ADHD study: Part 2: Dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence |
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impact of study design and diagnostic approach in a large multi-centre adhd study: part 2: dimensional measures of psychopathology and intelligence |
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The International Multi-centre ADHD Genetics (IMAGE) project with 11 participating centres from 7 European countries and Israel has collected a large behavioural and genetic database for present and future research. Behavioural data were collected from 1068 probands with ADHD and 1446 unselected siblings. The aim was to describe and analyse questionnaire data and IQ measures from all probands and siblings. In particular, to investigate the influence of age, gender, family status (proband vs. sibling), informant, and centres on sample homogeneity in psychopathological measures.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Conners' Questionnaires, Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires, and Wechsler Intelligence Scores were used to describe the phenotype of the sample. Data were analysed by use of robust statistical multi-way procedures.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Besides main effects of age, gender, informant, and centre, there were considerable interaction effects on questionnaire data. The larger differences between probands and siblings at home than at school may reflect contrast effects in the parents. Furthermore, there were marked gender by status effects on the ADHD symptom ratings with girls scoring one standard deviation higher than boys in the proband sample but lower than boys in the siblings sample. The multi-centre design is another important source of heterogeneity, particularly in the interaction with the family status. To a large extent the centres differed from each other with regard to differences between proband and sibling scores.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>When ADHD probands are diagnosed by use of fixed symptom counts, the severity of the disorder in the proband sample may markedly differ between boys and girls and across age, particularly in samples with a large age range. A multi-centre design carries the risk of considerable phenotypic differences between centres and, consequently, of additional heterogeneity of the sample even if standardized diagnostic procedures are used. These possible sources of variance should be counteracted in genetic analyses either by using age and gender adjusted diagnostic procedures and regional normative data or by adjusting for design artefacts by use of covariate statistics, by eliminating outliers, or by other methods suitable for reducing heterogeneity.</p> |
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