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Ideally, assessment measures would be incorporated into the treatment plan to assess baseline symptoms and response to treatment. Such measures include the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scale, the ten-item Conners Global Index for parents (Conners-P) and Teachers (Conners-T) ( 60), and the SNAP (Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham) rating scale (61). The latter has also been used in surveys of school-aged children ( 62). The results have been used to produce age-adjusted cutoffs that distinguish normal from abnormal degrees of inattentiveness and hyperactive/impulsive behavior. Thus, this scale can also be used to aid in documentation of the diagnosis as well as to monitor response to treatment. 

Conners Teacher Questionnaire. The TQ form was designed to obtain teacher evaluations of children up to age 15 in terms of their interactions with peers and their ability to cope with the school environment and requirements. There are 41 items, and the first 39 have a four-point scale. Question 40 deals with the teacher s evaluation of the child s severity of illness, and question 41 deals with global improvement in four different areas. This test is used once at pretreatment and as needed afterwards. It takes about 15 minutes to complete and covers either the present or any interval period up to one month. A shorter 11-item PTQ is often used after the initial use of the 41-item TQ. The five subscales included are conduct, inattentive-passive, tension-anxiety, hyperactivity, and social ability. 

With various scale data in electronic form, another option for deriving a global scale is to sum, average, or otherwise composite across all scales covering all the relevant domains. Conners et al. (2001) and Swanson et al. (2001) have illustrated how such a strategy can yield an overall outcome measure of high reliability... 

Rapoport, J., Conners, C.K., and Reatig, N. eds. (1985) Clinical Global Impression (CGI) Scale. Psychopharmacol Bull 21 839-843. 

Nicolson et al. (2006) Thirteen children (mean age 8.8 years). 12-week open-label trial DSM-IV 61.5% children responded. Improvements in irritability, social withdrawal, emotional lability, inattention, and aggression. ABC, Conners Parent Rating Scale-Revised, Children s Psychiatric Rating Scale and Clinical Global Impressions Scale used. 

A double-blind study of the anticonvulsant levetiracetam in 20 autistic children and adolescents failed to detect a significant difference between levetiracetam and placebo with respect to global improvement (CGI) or measures of repetitive behaviors (Children s Y-BOC) and/or hyperactivity (Conners Rating Scales-Revised) (Wasserman et al., 2006). 

Barrangou, R., Azcarate-Peril, M.A., Duong, T., Conners, S.B., Kelly, R.M. and Klaenhammer, T.R. (2006) Global analysis of carbohydrate uiiMxaliotihy Lactobacillus acidophilus using cDNA microarrays. Proc Natl Acad Sci U SA 103, 3816-3821. 

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