Clustering of social disadvantage with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in young adults: A register-based study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: The clustering of social disadvantage with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in young adulthood is not well understood. We examined the clustering of ADHD with low educational attainment and unemployment in young adulthood; whether such clustering is stronger when unemployment is prolonged; and whether further clustering of disability pensioning, low education and unemployment occurs among those with ADHD. Data were obtained from Swedish health, demographic and social security registers from which 8,990 individuals with recorded ADHD diagnoses at the age of 10-35 and their 44,387 matched referents without mental disorders. Social disadvantage was measured using data on educational attainment, unemployment and disability pension from the diagnosis year or age 19 if diagnosed a

SUBMITTER: Virtanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9545825 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature