ADHD in children and young people: prevalence, care pathways, and service provision.

TLDR: The timely recognition and treatment of children with ADHD-type difficulties provides an opportunity to improve long-term outcomes, including educational underachievement, difficulties with employment and relationships, and criminality.

About: This article is published in The Lancet Psychiatry.The article was published on 2017-10-09 and is currently open access. It has received 533 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder & Conduct disorder.

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Table 4 Using CINAHL (1982 to 22nd June 2016)

Table 1: The administrative prevalence of ADHD reported in studies conducted in the US

Table 5 Using ASSIA (1987 to 22nd June 2016)

Table 6 Using Medline (1946 to 22nd June 2016)

Table 3: The administrative prevalence of ADHD reported in studies conducted outside the US and UK

Table 2 Using Embase (1974 to 22nd June 2016)

Frequently asked questions

Q1. What are the contributions mentioned in the paper "Adhd in children and young people: prevalence, care pathways & service provision" ?

In this paper, the authors present the CANDAL ( Centre for ADHD and Neurodevelopmental Disorders across the Lifespan ), Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham, UK ( Prof Kapil Sayal, PhD ; Dr Vibhore Prasad, PhD and Prof David Daley, PhD ). 

Q2. What is the name of the institute of mental health?

ADHD often persists into adulthood and is a risk factor for other mental health disorders and negative outcomes including educational under-achievement, difficulties with employment and relationships, and criminality. 

Q3. What is the prevalence of ADHD in the UK?

Estimates of the administrative (clinically diagnosed and/or recorded) prevalence vary worldwide and although increasing over time, ADHD is still relatively under-recognised and under-diagnosed in most countries, particularly in girls and older children.