persian manuscript of adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder rating scale expected internal consistency and factor structure in iranian medical students

Background: adult attention-deficit/hyper activity disorder (adhd) interacts with educational and occupational achievements. to introduce a valid screening tool for adult adhd in iranian students, the current study aimed at evaluating internal consistency and factor structure of adult adhd self-report scale (asrs) persian version 1.1. methods: asrs persian version 1.1 was filled by 240 iranian medical students aged 18 - 24 years, and cronbach’s alpha coefficient and factor analysis were performed with spss version 21. results: cronbach’s alpha coefficientwas0.76.8 for asrs. factor analysisconfirmedtwofactors of attention deficitandhyperactivity for asrs persian version. conclusions: asrs persian version 1.1 had adequate internal consistency and saved the two structure factors of the original questionnaire, the hyperactivity and the attention deficit.