Wender Utah Rating Scale.
WURS
- What it measures
- Retrospective self-report of childhood ADHD symptoms in adults (to establish childhood onset for adult ADHD diagnosis)
- Length and format
- 61 (WURS-61); 25-item short form widely used. 5-point (0-4); the 25-item subset summed; >=36/46 thresholds proposed (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ES, FR, DE, PT, ZH
- Normative data
- Normative data for this instrument is held in our reference library. The per-population breakdown is not published here.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Ward, M. F., Wender, P. H., & Reimherr, F. W. (1993). The Wender Utah Rating Scale. American Journal of Psychiatry, 150(6), 885-890.
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