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ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue

BACKGROUND: Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a multi-factorial condition, with inheritance playing a major role. Recognizing parents’ ADHD represents a clue not only for an earlier diagnosis of the disease in their children, but also to optimize psycho-educational therapy outco...

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Autores principales: Wiel, Luisa Cortellazzo, Rispoli, Francesco, Peccolo, Giulia, Rosolen, Valentina, Barbi, Egidio, Skabar, Aldo
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35346326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-022-01240-7
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author Wiel, Luisa Cortellazzo
Rispoli, Francesco
Peccolo, Giulia
Rosolen, Valentina
Barbi, Egidio
Skabar, Aldo
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Peccolo, Giulia
Rosolen, Valentina
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Skabar, Aldo
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description BACKGROUND: Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a multi-factorial condition, with inheritance playing a major role. Recognizing parents’ ADHD represents a clue not only for an earlier diagnosis of the disease in their children, but also to optimize psycho-educational therapy outcomes, by addressing the impairment of parenting related to untreated ADHD. This study aimed to assess the frequency of features suggestive of ADHD during childhood among parents of affected children, and the presence of school and emotional impairment. METHODS: We administered the Wender Utah Rating Scale-25, a self-assessment tool for the retrospective identification of symptoms consistent with ADHD during childhood, to a cohort of 120 parents of 60 children with ADHD, and to a consistent number of “controls”. RESULTS: The WURS-25 proved positive in 49.1% of fathers and 30.0% of mothers of ADHD patients, compared to 1.7% of fathers and 1.7% of mothers of non-ADHD patients (p < 0.0001). The questions addressing learning and emotional impairment provided significantly higher scores in parents with an overall positive test compared to those with negative test (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates a remarkably high rate of symptoms consistent with ADHD during childhood in parents of affected children. Physicians should be aware that this is a relevant anamnestic clue and, given the relevance of parents’ role in the management of children with ADHD, an important issue to address in order to optimize patients’ treatment.
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spelling pubmed-89620162022-03-30 ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue Wiel, Luisa Cortellazzo Rispoli, Francesco Peccolo, Giulia Rosolen, Valentina Barbi, Egidio Skabar, Aldo Ital J Pediatr Research BACKGROUND: Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a multi-factorial condition, with inheritance playing a major role. Recognizing parents’ ADHD represents a clue not only for an earlier diagnosis of the disease in their children, but also to optimize psycho-educational therapy outcomes, by addressing the impairment of parenting related to untreated ADHD. This study aimed to assess the frequency of features suggestive of ADHD during childhood among parents of affected children, and the presence of school and emotional impairment. METHODS: We administered the Wender Utah Rating Scale-25, a self-assessment tool for the retrospective identification of symptoms consistent with ADHD during childhood, to a cohort of 120 parents of 60 children with ADHD, and to a consistent number of “controls”. RESULTS: The WURS-25 proved positive in 49.1% of fathers and 30.0% of mothers of ADHD patients, compared to 1.7% of fathers and 1.7% of mothers of non-ADHD patients (p < 0.0001). The questions addressing learning and emotional impairment provided significantly higher scores in parents with an overall positive test compared to those with negative test (p < 0.0001). CONCLUSIONS: This study demonstrates a remarkably high rate of symptoms consistent with ADHD during childhood in parents of affected children. Physicians should be aware that this is a relevant anamnestic clue and, given the relevance of parents’ role in the management of children with ADHD, an important issue to address in order to optimize patients’ treatment. BioMed Central 2022-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8962016/ /pubmed/35346326 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-022-01240-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Wiel, Luisa Cortellazzo
Rispoli, Francesco
Peccolo, Giulia
Rosolen, Valentina
Barbi, Egidio
Skabar, Aldo
ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue
title ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue
title_full ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue
title_fullStr ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue
title_full_unstemmed ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue
title_short ADHD symptoms and school impairment history in parents of ADHD children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue
title_sort adhd symptoms and school impairment history in parents of adhd children are a fundamental diagnostic and therapeutic clue
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35346326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-022-01240-7
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