A Teacher Rating Scale for Use in Drug Studies with Children

¹ Assistant professor of psychology, Harvard Medical School, and associate in psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. 02114

The author describes and emphasizes the value of a symptom and behavior rating checklist for teachers' use in drug studies with children. Factor analysis of the scale produced five factors that gave reliable subscales over a one-month period. A treatment study of dextroamphetamine with a group of children having learning and/or behavior disorders showed significant changes in all factors compared with a placebo group in a double-blind study.

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