Emotional/Behavioral Problems and Functional Impairment in Clinic- and Community-Based Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Taiwan |
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Authors: | Susan Shur-Fen Gau Yu-Ju Lin Chi-Yung Shang Shih-Kai Liu Yen-Nan Chiu Wei-Tsuen Soong |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, No. 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan, 10002;(2) Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan;(3) Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Taoyuan Mental Hospital, Department of Health Executive Yuan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan;(4) St. Joseph’s Hospital, Yunlin County, Taiwan |
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Abstract: | Using a sample of 268 patients and 137 community-based children with DSM-IV ADHD, and 268 school controls, aged 6–15, this
study aimed to compare the emotional/behavioral problems and functional impairment between clinic- and community-based children
with ADHD. Children’s ADHD-related symptoms, a wide range of emotional/behavioral problems, and functional impairments were
assessed by the psychiatric interviews and self-, parent- and teacher-reported questionnaires. Both ADHD groups scored higher
in parent- and teacher-reported ADHD-related symptoms, wide-ranging emotional/behavioral problems, and impairments in the
school, peer, family, and leisure time domains than school controls. However, clinic-based children with ADHD had more physical/developmental
problems, more severe functional impairments and teacher-reported hyperactivity/impulsivity symptoms, and higher family burdens
than their community counterparts. Our findings suggest that a higher maternal educational level, parent’s perceived child
functional impairment, teacher’s perceived impaired peer relationship and hyperactivity-impulsivity, and child physical and
developmental problems may be related to the psychiatric referrals of children with ADHD. |
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