TY  - JOUR
AB  - Background: Objective measures of physical activity are currently not considered in clinical guidelines for the assessment of hyperactivity in the context of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) due to low and inconsistent associations between clinical ratings, missing age-related norm data and high technical requirements. Methods: This pilot study introduces a new objective measure for physical activity using compressed webcam video footage, which should be less affected by age-related variables. A pre-test established a preliminary standard procedure for testing a clinical sample of 39 children aged 6–16 years (21 with a clinical ADHD diagnosis, 18 without). Subjects were filmed for 6 min while solving a standardized cognitive performance task. Our webcam video-based video-activity score was compared with respect to two independent video-based movement ratings by students, ratings of Inattentiveness, Hyperactivity and Impulsivity by clinicians (DCL-ADHS) giving a clinical diagnosis of ADHD and parents (FBB-ADHD) and physical features (age, weight, height, BMI) using mean scores, correlations and multiple regression. Results: Our video-activity score showed a high agreement (r = 0.81) with video-based movement ratings, but also considerable associations with age-related physical attributes. After controlling for age-related confounders, the video-activity score showed not the expected association with clinicians’ or parents’ hyperactivity ratings. Conclusions: Our preliminary conclusion is that our video-activity score assesses physical activity but not specific information related to hyperactivity. The general problem of defining and assessing hyperactivity with objective criteria remains.
AU  - Wehrmann, Thomas
AU  - Müller, Jörg M.
DA  - 2015-09-10
DO  - 10.1186/s13034-015-0076-1
KW  - ADHD
KW  - Hyperactivity
KW  - Objective measure
KW  - Physical activity
KW  - Video
LA  - eng
N1  - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 9 (2015) 45, 1-11
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2015/2016 der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
PY  - 2015-09-10
SN  - 1753-2000
TI  - An objective measure of hyperactivity aspects with compressed webcam video
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-47269635323
Y2  - 2024-11-21T21:59:26
ER  -