ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2023
Age-related clinical characteristics of children and adolescents with ADHD.
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- Functional Impairment Related to ADHD From Preschool to School Age.Journal of attention disorders · 2025Article
- I've really struggled but it does not seem to work: adolescents' experiences of living with ADHD - a thematic analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Complementary therapies for the management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children: a scoping review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Somatic comorbidities and health related uncertainty among Swedish adolescents with ADHD.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Assessment of ADHD Subtypes Using Motion Tracking Recognition Based on Stroop Color-Word Tests.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Prevalence of co-occurring conditions among youths receiving treatment with primary anxiety, ADHD, or depressive disorder diagnoses.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Diagnosis of ADHD using virtual reality and artificial intelligence: an exploratory study of clinical applications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Development of a digital mental health intervention for youth with ADHD: exploring youth perspectives on wants, needs, and barriers.Frontiers in digital health · 2024Article
- Problematic Use of Internet Associates with Poor Quality of Life via Psychological Distress in Invididuals with ADHD.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Article
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Among Youth at Clinical High Risk of Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2024Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been associated with difficulties in regulating aversion states, high functional impairment, and a high risk of psychopathology across the lifespan. ADHD is clinically heterogeneous, with a wide spectrum of severity and associated symptoms. Clinical characteristics need to be carefully defined in different periods of life as ADHD course, symptoms, and comorbidities may fluctuate and change over time. Adolescence usually represents the transition from primary to secondary education, with a qualitative and quantitative change in environmental and functional demands, thus driving symptoms' change. Methods: In order to characterize age-related clinical features of children (<11 years) and adolescents (≥11 years) with ADHD, we conducted a naturalistic study on 750 children and adolescents assessed for ADHD at our Neuropsychiatry Unit over the course of 3 years (2018-2020). Results: We found that ADHD symptoms were significantly higher in children than adolescents. More importantly, we found worse global functioning, lower adaptive skills, higher levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms, somatic complaints, emotional dysregulation, social problems, and aggression in adolescents, despite a lower severity of ADHD-specific symptoms. Conclusion: These results should be confirmed in longitudinal observational studies of adequate sample size in order to reliably describe a potential course characterized by worsening of functioning, reduction in ADHD-specific symptoms and increase in general psychopathology during the transition from childhood to adolescence.
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