Sentences with phrase «adhd on child outcome»

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«As research into health outcomes in children with ADHD continues to provide new insights, focusing on the overall number of healthy lifestyle behaviors may become important.»

In this study, we wanted to assess the health outcomes of children diagnosed with ADHD, focusing on obesity rates and Body Mass Index,» said lead author Francisco Xavier Castellanos, MD, Brooke and Daniel Neidich Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Child Study Center at NYU Langone.

However, on the teacher - rated outcomes, we failed to show significant reduction of the child's ADHD behavior.

Impact of early school - based screening and intervention programs for ADHD on children's outcomes and access to services follow - up of a school - based trial at age 10 years

About 5 % of all children in the Western world fulfill diagnostic criteria for attention deficit — hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 1 and a large proportion of such children are treated pharmacologically.2 ADHD has been associated with criminality3, 4 and externalizing disorders.5 Beneficial short - term effects of ADHD medication on symptoms of ADHD and associated conduct problems have been shown in numerous randomized, controlled studies involving children6 - 8 and adults.9 - 11 ADHD symptoms are largely persistent from childhood into adulthood, 12 but one prominent feature of ADHD treatment is that the discontinuation of medication is common, 13,14 especially in adolescence and early adulthood.15 The importance of treatment discontinuation for criminality and other longer - term outcomes is largely unknown.

Even so, the peer relationships of children with ADHD typically are not normalized, especially when the perspectives of one's own peers are used as outcome measures.27 Admittedly, this focus on peer - assessed outcomes excludes several excellent studies29, 30 and effective treatment programs described elsewhere31, 32 employing outcome measures derived from other sources (eg, parent or teacher report).