作者
Susan L Smalley, JAMES J McGOUGH, Irma K Moilanen, Sandra K Loo, Anja Taanila, Hanna Ebeling, Tuula Hurtig, Marika Kaakinen, Lorie A Humphrey, JAMES T McCRACKEN, Teppo Varilo, May H Yang, Stanley F Nelson, Leena Peltonen, Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
发表日期
2007/12/1
期刊
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
卷号
46
期号
12
页码范围
1575-1583
出版商
Elsevier
简介
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of the study was to estimate the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its clinical characteristics in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986.
METHOD
A general population Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 of 9,432 children followed prospectively from the early fetal period was surveyed at adolescence (ages 16-18) for ADHD behaviors. Among 6,622 respondents to the survey, a subset of 457 likely cases and controls were evaluated for ADHD and other psychiatric disorders. Chi-square and descriptive statistics were used to examine clinical characteristics of ADHD in the subset, and logistic regression was used to estimate prevalence by weighted extrapolation in the larger cohort.
RESULTS
The estimated prevalence of ADHD among adolescents in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 is 8.5% with a male/female ratio of 5.7:1. The distribution of ADHD …
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