The Preschool Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Treatment Study (PATS) 6-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the clinical course of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom severity and diagnosis from ages 3 to 5 up to 9 to 12 years during a 6-year follow-up after the original Preschool ADHD Treatment Study (PATS).

Method

A total of 207 participants (75% male) from the original PATS, assessed at baseline (mean age, 4.4 years, when all met criteria for ADHD) and 3 months later (before medication treatment), were re-evaluated in three follow-up assessment visits (year 3, mean age 7.4 years; year 4, 8.3 years; and year 6, 10.4 years). Parents and teachers rated symptom severity, and clinicians established psychiatric diagnoses. Analyses examined longitudinal changes in symptom severity and ADHD diagnosis.

Results

Parent- and teacher-rated sy

SUBMITTER: Riddle MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3660093 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature