Age- and Sex-Specific Norms for ADHD Symptoms and Performance on the Vanderbilt Assessment Scale

Objective: To provide national norms, percentiles, and results of factor analyses for the ADHD symptoms and performance items on the parent-report and self-report versions of the Vanderbilt Assessment Scale (VAS) for youth ages 6 to 17. We hypothesized that symptom items would demonstrate separate inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity factors, performance items would demonstrate interpretable latent dimensions, measurement invariance would be supported across age and sex, and symptom ratings would vary systematically by age and sex. Method: In a nationally stratified survey conducted in Ju

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