ArticleInternational journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being2017
Academic textbooks [corrected] on ADHD genetics: balanced or biased?
Article in International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 6 papers.
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- What children and young people learn about ADHD from youth information books: A text analysis of nine books on ADHD available in Dutch.Scandinavian journal of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology · 2020Article
- A biased ADHD discourse ignores human uniqueness.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2017Article
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- Erratum issuedCorrection.2019
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Abstract
Academic text books [corrected] are essential assets for disseminating knowledge about ADHD to future healthcare professionals. This study examined if they are balanced with regard to genetics. We selected and analyzed study books (N=43) used in (pre) master's programmes at 10 universities in the Netherlands. Because the mere behaviourally informed quantitative genetics give a much higher effect size of the genetic involvement in ADHD, it is important that text books [corrected] contrast these findings with molecular genetics' outcomes. The latter studies use real genetic data, and their low effect sizes expose the potential weaknesses of quantitative genetics, like underestimating the involvement of the environment. Only a quarter of books mention both effect sizes and contrast these findings, while another quarter does not discuss any effect size. Most importantly, however, roughly half of the books in our sample mention only the effect sizes from quantitative genetic studies without addressing the low explained variance of molecular genetic studies. This may confuse readers by suggesting that the weakly associated genes support the quite spectacular, but potentially flawed estimates of twin, family and adoption studies, while they actually contradict them.
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