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Mental Disorders in Five-Year-Old Children With or Without Developmental Delay: Focus on ADHD

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Epidemiological studies of children and adolescents with intellectual disability have found 30 to 50% exhibiting clinically significant behavior problems. Few studies, however, have assessed young children, included a cognitively typical comparison group, assessed for specific disorders, and/or studied family correlates of diagnosis. We assessed 236 5-year-old children--95 with developmental delay (DD) and 141 with typical development--for clinical diagnoses using a structured interview. Every disorder assessed was more prevalent in the DD group. The percent of children meeting criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) most highly differentiated the two groups (ratio = 3.21:1). There was high stability from externalizing behavior problems at age 3 to ADHD diagnoses at age 5 in both groups. In regression analyses, parenting stress at child age 3 related to later ADHD diagnosis in both groups and maternal scaffolding (sensitive teaching) also predicted ADHD in the DD group.

Source: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2010.486321

Authors: Bruce L. Baker, Cameron L. Neece, Rachel M. Fenning, Keith A. Crnic, Jan Blacher

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, University of California System, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Arizona State University, University of California, Riverside

Language: English

Topic: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Subfield: Psychiatry and Mental health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: U.S. Public Health Service, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development