ADHD Symptoms Worsen as Child Transitions to Middle School
The environmental changes associated with the transition of children to school can aggravate the symptoms of attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or disrupt the typical pattern of decline, according to a study of the July 2008 issue of the Journal of Clinical Child Psychology and Adolescents.
Studies have indicated that simplification and fashioning a child of the environment and routine can have an impact on the symptoms of ADHD. But when children start school, their environment and routine change dramatically - they have multiple classes with multiple teachers, more homework, and planning and organization of applications and become more responsible of their own success. Joshua M. Langberg, PhD, Jeffery Epstein, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, and colleagues analyzed data from 258 children in the multimodal treatment studies of ADHD (MTA), which completed primary school and continued while schools enrolled in the study. By using reports from children, parents and teachers, researchers have found that if the symptoms of ADHD children less than age, the transition to college interrupted this trend. Parents reported greater disruption of symptoms that teachers, probably because the impact of the transition May were more evident at home, according to researchers. The researchers also found that children taking medication for ADHD symptoms not fared better compared to those not taking medication during the transition. The authors suggested that, if medicines are very effective in treating symptoms of ADHD, it is unlikely to help a child develop the skills necessary to succeed in school, such as time management, l organization, planning and studies. By way of comparison, the authors have followed the experience of controlling a group of children without ADHD, which rose to the same schools at the same time that children enrolled in the MTA study. They found that children without ADHD were less likely to experience the same level of distress or difficulty that children with ADHD, as they entered high school, according to parent and teacher. The study provides the first research data to support the assertion that environmental changes associated with the transition to college can aggravate a child ADHD symptoms or disrupt the typical pattern of decline. Source: U.S. National Institute of Mental Health |
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