A longitudinal investigation of cognitive functioning and its relationship to symptom severity and academic functioning in treatment seeking youth with AHDH.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with ADHD tend to present with poorer cognitive functioning leaving them more vulnerable to a range of negative outcomes. To date, only a handful of longitudinal studies have examined the stability of Wechsler composite scores in children and adolescents with ADHD, and none of them used a more recent version of the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children (WISC), than the WISC-III.

Objective

The present study investigates the cognitive stability and its longitudinal relationship with the severity of the child's ADHD symptoms and school grades.

Method

Cognitive functioning was measured with the fourth editions of the WISC-IV or the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales (WAIS-IV) at baseline and at a 3-4-year follow-up in children with ADHD (n = 125, m

SUBMITTER: Tallberg P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8077411 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature