The long-term financial outcome of children diagnosed with ADHD.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Characterize the early trajectories of financial functioning in adults with history of childhood ADHD and use these trajectories to project earnings and savings over the lifetime.

Method

Data were drawn from a prospective case-control study (PALS) following participants with a rigorous diagnosis of ADHD during childhood (N = 364) and demographically matched controls (N = 240) for nearly 20 years. Participants and their parents reported on an array of financial outcomes when participants were 25 and 30 years old.

Results

At age 30, adults with a history of ADHD exhibited substantially worse outcomes than controls on most financial indicators, even when they and their parents no longer endorsed any DSM symptoms of ADHD. Between ages 25 and 30, probands had exh

SUBMITTER: Pelham WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6940517 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature