School-based randomized controlled trials for ADHD and accompanying impairments: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Children and young people with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) face disproportionate challenges due to core symptoms of ADHD (i.e., inattention and hyperactivity) interfering with academic, social, and behavioural functioning. The significant rise in the prevalence of ADHD and difficulties experienced by children and young people over recent years has put a lot more emphasis on school-based interventions. Despite this, and the tremendous amount of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) reporting school-based interventions for ADHD over the past decades, there has been no systematic reporting of the pooled effects of such trials in the literature.

Methods

This study seeks, for the first time, to report the effects of school-based RCTs on the core sym

SUBMITTER: Yegencik B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12318974 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature