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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
Volume 46, Issue 1, Pages 92-101Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1097/01.chi.0000242245.00174.90
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oppositional defiant disorder; comorbidity; attention deficit and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders; conduct disorder; risk factors
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH [R01MH044733] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Objective: To examine differences in risk factors and comorbid conditions for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptom groups in a sample of 248 elementary schoolboys (ages 6-10) recruited from 1994 to 1996. Method: The boys and their mothers received multiple assessments of cognitive, behavioral, academic, and family functioning, including a clinic-based evaluation in Stony Brook, NY. ODD was defined using four different strategies for aggregating data from mother and teacher reports of DSM-IV symptoms. Results: Source-specific ODD symptom groups had better internal validity and were more differentiated than groups defined using the other strategies. The mother-defined ODD symptom group (ODD/M) had higher levels of maternal detachment than the teacher-defined symptom group (ODD/T), and the ODD/T group had more social problems than the ODD/M group. The classification agreement group (ODD/M + T) evidenced higher levels of sensation-seeking, maternal control, and comorbid symptoms than the ODD/M and ODD/T groups. Controlling for co-occurring attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorder symptoms altered some of the relationships among ODD, comorbid symptoms, and psychosocial correlates. Conclusions: Patterns of co-occurring psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial correlates of ODD symptom groups varied depending on the rater(s) used to determine group membership. Results support continued research into source specificity for conceptualizing ODD.
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