... patients with the inattentive type, particularly the study with adolescents In the study with children, only 19.5% of patients were of the inattentive type, whilst considerable 45.9% were of the ... the calculation of convergent and discriminant validity and allow comparisons with other self report measures [42] A future comparison of this sample withchildren without ADHD or with other behavioral ... healthrelated quality of life in children and adolescents with ADHD [25] However, since the introduction of various long-acting ADHD medications, interest in duration of action of these medications...
... measure the health ofchildrenwith ADHD more comprehensively [29-37] Subsequently, a number of reports have been published regarding the improvement of HRQL for childrenwith ADHD receiving ... satisfied with the efficacy of the study medication on their child's attention The majority of caregivers (93.1%) indicated a high level of satisfaction with the duration of effect of the study ... substance use disorders [8-11], childrenwith ADHD struggle with impairment in academic functioning, self-esteem, and interpersonal relationships [12,13] Families ofchildrenwith ADHD frequently experience...
... that childrenwith ADHD in this sample reported psychosocial health comparable to child and parent reports ofchildrenwith newly-diagnosed children receiving cancer treatment and childrenwith ... standard for young children [19] Consequently, the primary objective of the present study was to measure the perceived HRQOL ofchildrenwith ADHD from the perspective of the children at the population ... the literature, we believe the consistency of the present findings with the PedsQL™ of differences between healthy children and childrenwith ADHD with both child self-report and parent proxy-report...
... UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT STUDENT SURVEY (To be completed individually by student) How often you play video games with friends? How often others in your life complain to you about the amount of time ... games? How often your grades or schoolwork suffer because of the amount of time you spend playing video games? How often you play video games before something else that you need to do? How often does ... thoughts about your life with thoughts of playing video games? 11 How often you find yourself anticipating when you will play video games again? 12 How often you fear that life without video games...
... Thus, although without statistically significant results (probably because of the insufficient power in all the studies), the findings from genome-wide approaches indicate a whole range of new and ... DNA binding 2 (ID2) An initial case-control study was con uct d d e in a sample of 587 participants with ADHD (children and adults) and 587 matched control individuals from Spain The results ... studies with ADHD Know ledge of such genes will allow us to identify specific diagnostic biological markers In addition, defining target genes is the first step toward the development of novel...
... importance of distinguishing between childrenwith ADHD alone and those with a combination of ADHD symptoms and aggression [8] Aggression appeared to be a useful means of subtyping ADHD childrenwith ... aggression scale of the CBCL, with a cutoff point of 60 Chisquare was used to compare the rate of lost to followup between subtypes The Student’s t-test or One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) ... girls) with a mean age of 7.84 ± 1.64 years Fifteen of them were inattentive type, 11 were hyperactive-impulsive type, and 24 were combined type Using a cutoff point of 60 on the aggression scale of...
... The trial with the largest number of participants was of short duration of three weeks [19] This time period may not be adequate as optimal efficacy of atomoxetine requires 4-6 weeks of treatment ... data extraction form Title, year of publication, total number of participants, age of participants, design of study (parallel vs crossover), blinding, name and dose of drug, number who dropped out ... efficacy of methylphenidate with atomoxetine in the treatment of ADHD diagnosed using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV™) criteria, in children...
... potential new candidates for follow up [5-7] Of particular interest is the convergent finding of association with variants within CDH13, a gene that lies within the ADHD linkage region on chromosome ... parents and they were invited to assess their children s behaviour at two time points; 1) within two weeks of their second birthday and 2) within two weeks of their third birthday The mean age at time ... non-independent nature of the phenotypes under investigation, we did not correct any of the association findings for the number of phenotypes studied None of the associations at either age withstood Bonferroni...
... [16] The psychiatric outpatient study group comprised 20 adult men with ADHD, 18 of them with ADHD of the combined type, and two with the predominantly inattentive subtype We consecutively recruited ... interpersonal traits of Factor to be most specific of psychopathy Besides, we confirmed ASD among almost one fourth of ADHD prison inmates, mainly PDD-NOS We are not aware of any previous reports ... functions compared with the other groups Methods The present study included an estimation of the prevalence of ADHD among longer-term prison inmates Further, it included a description of ADHD and executive...
... finding of the study was that childrenwith and without ADHD differed in brain activity when saccades were elicited by acoustic cues Childrenwith ADHD had a higher source activity than control children ... study with younger children has also found differences between childrenwith and without ADHD [10] and thus questions the assumption of a general oculomotor inhibition deficit in younger children ... localisation, ordering of nonspeech sounds and difficulties with acoustic tasks when competing acoustic signals are present [75,76] Both, childrenwith APD and childrenwith ADHD, have difficulty...
... levels of scientific evidence [56] In view of the large numbers ofchildren and adolescents being diagnosed with AD/HD and the increased use of CAM therapies, of which chiropractic care is one of ... http://www.chiroandosteo.com/content/18/1/13 Page of 11 Objective To evaluate the evidence of the effect of chiropractic care for the treatment and/or management ofchildren and adolescents with AD/HD The hierarchy of evidence is ... management of paediatric and adolescent AD/HD?" The inclusion of a log of rejected trials is an important aspect of any systematic review [90] As part of the Cochrane review process a log of rejected...
... identification of attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among children and adolescents showed the greatest increase of all categories of psychosocial problems [1], and the percentage ofchildren ... Analyses of the AOK Hessen sample (for year 2000) revealed a methylphenidate treatment prevalence of 0.52% among children and adolescents below age 20 [87] Ofchildren age to 15 years with a diagnosis ... from Nordbaden indicate that in 2003, 40% (1,161 out of 2,939) ofchildren and adolescents (age group 7–19) with a diagnosis of ADHD were treated with stimulant medication [74,89] For modeling input,...
... the hypothesis of this analysis was that the emotional well-being ofchildren and adolescents with ADHD responds well to treatment with atomoxetine as reflected by the 10 items of the PAERS directly ... quality of life for childrenwith newly diagnosed attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, compared with asthmatic and healthy children Pediatrics 2005, 116:e364-e369 Harpin VA: The effect of ADHD ... diagnostic assessment of ADHD in Germany [35] The items of this instrument correspond to those of the ADHD-RS [21,22] Patients had to have an IQ of ≥70 based on the clinical judgment of the investigator...
... parents withchildrenwith ADHD and a general population sample of parents withchildren without ADHD (normative population) Parents ofchildrenwith ADHD were questioned about the impact of their ... http://www.capmh.com/content/2/1/31 Figure Types of behaviour exhibited by childrenwith ADHD compared to children without ADHD Types of behaviour exhibited by childrenwith ADHD compared to children without ADHD Baseline: ... *p = 0.0001, non-medicated childrenwith ADHD versus children without ADHD †p = 0.0001, children without ADHD versus non-medicated childrenwith ADHD percentage ofchildren receiving stimulant...
... Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, The Children' s Hospital of Philadelphia; Gabrielle A Carlson, Professor of Psychiatry ... ADHD childrenwith a different genetic variant (Brain scanning research has also suggested that the brains of some childrenwith ADHD eventually "catch-up" with the brains of unaffected children ... child's community offered to childrenwith ADHD) http://www.capmh.com/content/3/1/1 The initial, highly influential conclusions of this Multimodal Treatment Study ofChildrenwith ADHD (MTA) were...
... analysis of data from two open-label studies [26,40] The patient characteristicsof this sample (Table 2) closely resemble those of previous atomoxetine studies in children and adolescents with ADHD, ... quality of life ofchildren and adolescents with mental disorders J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2002, 41:530-537 Klassen AF, Miller A, Fine S: Health-related quality of life in children ... diagnostic assessment of ADHD in Germany [42] The items of this instrument correspond to those of the ADHD-RS [30,31] Patients had to have an IQ of ≥ 70 based on the clinical judgment of the investigator...
... disabilities of school-aged children are attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disabilities, with prevalence rates of 3%-7% and 5%-10%, respectively [1,2] Of the children diagnosed ... specifically to the severity of inattentive symptoms in ADHD [7] and is also highly characteristic ofchildrenwith reading difficulties [8,9] Working memory consists of a set of interactive neurocognitive ... simply a function of improvement of inattentive symptoms Recent studies of the stimulant methylphenidate in childrenwith ADHD+D and ADHD evaluating response to medication in treatment of ADHD symptoms...
... weeks of follow-up might have been too brief for the evaluation of the improvement of HR-QoL Though the findings of Perwien et al [19] indicate that the treatment effect of atomoxetine with regard ... quality of life ofchildrenwith attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder: a systematic review Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2010, 19(2):83-105 Harpin VA: The effect of ADHD on the life of an individual, ... improves with effective treatment, both with psychostimulants and with atomoxetine, but most treatment studies have had relatively short follow-up periods [6] In comparing children and adolescents with...
... percentage of ADHD adolescents were hospitalized with a diagnosis of general symptoms compared with controls (4.85% of ADHD children vs 1.10% of control children; 2.28% of ADHD children vs 1.11% of control ... percentage of ADHD children had diagnoses of asthma or epilepsy compared with controls (asthma: 4.73% of ADHD children vs 3.39% of control children; epilepsy: 2.06% of ADHD children vs 0.46% of control ... ADHD children vs 0.10% of control children; 3.71% of ADHD adolescents vs 0.64% of control adolescents), and depressive disorder (2.73% of ADHD children vs 0.08% of control children; 5.19% of ADHD...
... Canadian clinical trials with durations of up to year [13-15] Equipped with a more detailed and nuanced understanding of the time course of treatment responses and remission with atomoxetine, clinicians ... scales in children treated with atomoxetine at usual clinical dosages [11,12] To accomplish this aim, we estimated the likelihood of response or remission with atomoxetine as a function of time ... were associated with a shorter time to attain remission The baseline value of CGI-ADHD-S was also a significant predictor of time to remission, with lower values (indicative of less severe ADHD...