title: Hyperactive boys almost grown up. I. Psychiatric status. Protocol investigating the clinical utility of an objective measure of activity and attention (QbTest) on diagnostic and treatment decision-making in children and young people with ADHD—‘Assessing QbTest Utility in ADHD’ (AQUA): a randomised controlled trial Predictors of ADHD Persistence in Girls at 5-Year Follow-Up Mortality, ADHD, and Psychosocial Adversity in Adults With Childhood ADHD: A Prospective Study Adult psychiatric status of hyperactive boys grown up. Predictors of persistence and remission of ADHD into adolescence: results from a four-year prospective follow-up study. Young adult outcome of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a controlled 10-year follow-up study. The adolescent outcome of hyperactive children diagnosed by research criteria: I. An 8-year prospective follow-up study.
abstract: We report a prospect i ve longitudinal study of 101 male adolescents ( ages 16 to 23 years ) who had been diagnosed hyperactive in childhood ( ages 6 to 12 years ) , compared with 100 normal controls . The DSM-III diagnoses were made blind to group membership . Information was obtained for 98 % of the original cohort . The full attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity ( ADDH ) syndrome persisted in 31 % of the prob and s vs in 3 % of the controls . The only other two conditions that distinguished the groups significantly were conduct and substance use disorders . These disorders aggregated significantly among the prob and s with continued ADDH . The results indicate that the greatest risk factor for the development of antisocial behavior and drug abuse is the maintenance of ADDH symptoms . Substance use disorders followed the onset of conduct disorder in the overwhelming majority of the cases Introduction The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE ) guidelines for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) state that young people need to have access to the best evidence -based care to improve outcome . The current ‘ gold st and ard ’ ADHD diagnostic assessment combines clinical observation with subjective parent , teacher and self-reports . In routine practice , reports from multiple informants may be unavailable or contradictory , leading to diagnostic uncertainty and delay . The addition of objective tests of attention and activity may help reduce diagnostic uncertainty and delays in initiating treatment leading to improved outcomes . This trial investigates whether providing clinicians with an objective report of levels of attention , impulsivity and activity can lead to an earlier , and more accurate , clinical diagnosis and improved patient outcome . Methods and analysis This multisite r and omised controlled trial will recruit young people ( aged 6–17 years old ) who have been referred for an ADHD diagnostic assessment at Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services ( CAMHS ) and Community Paediatric clinics across Engl and . Routine clinical assessment will be augmented by the QbTest , incorporating a continuous performance test ( CPT ) and infrared motion tracking of activity . The participant will be r and omised into one of two study arms : QbOpen ( clinician has immediate access to a QbTest report ) : QbBlind ( report is withheld until the study end ) . Primary outcomes are time to diagnosis and diagnostic accuracy . Secondary outcomes include clinician 's diagnostic confidence and routine clinical outcome measures . Cost-effective analysis will be conducted , alongside a qualitative assessment of the feasibility and acceptability of incorporating QbTest in routine practice . Ethics and dissemination The findings from the study will inform commissioners , clinicians and managers about the feasibility , acceptability , clinical utility and cost-effectiveness of incorporating QbTest into routine diagnostic assessment of young people with ADHD . The results will be su bmi tted for publication in peer- review ed journals . The study has received ethical approval . Trial registration number NCT02209116 Objective : The main aim of this study was to examine the age-dependent remission from ADHD in girls transitioning through childhood into adolescence and early adulthood . Method : We conducted a 5-year prospect i ve follow-up study of 123 girls with ADHD and 106 non-ADHD control girls aged between 6 and 17 years at ascertainment . ADHD was considered persistent at follow-up if participants met full diagnostic criteria for DSM-IV ADHD or met residual criteria for DSM-IV ADHD with associated impairment ( Global Age Forum [ GAF ] score < 60 ) . Results : By age 16 years , ADHD was persistent in 71 % ( 95 % CI = 61 - 79 % ) of girls with ADHD . Participants with persistent ADHD at follow-up had more psychiatric comorbidity , behavior problems , and functional impairment than girls with ADHD in remission . Remitted ADHD , however , continued to be associated with functional impairment relative to non-ADHD controls . Persistence at 5 years was predicted by increased behavioral impairment at baseline . Conclusion : This 5-year follow-up suggests that many girls with ADHD experience persistent symptoms and /or functional impairment through late adolescence and into early adulthood . ( J. of Att . Dis . 2011 ; 15(3 ) 183 - 192 OBJECTIVE : We examined long-term outcomes of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) in a population -based sample of childhood ADHD cases and controls , prospect ively assessed as adults . METHODS : Adults with childhood ADHD and non-ADHD controls from the same birth cohort ( N = 5718 ) were invited to participate in a prospect i ve outcome study . Vital status was determined for birth cohort members . St and ardized mortality ratios ( SMRs ) were constructed to compare overall and cause-specific mortality between childhood ADHD cases and controls . Incarceration status was determined for childhood ADHD cases . A st and ardized neuropsychiatric interview was administered . RESULTS : Vital status for 367 childhood ADHD cases was determined : 7 ( 1.9 % ) were deceased , and 10 ( 2.7 % ) were currently incarcerated . The SMR for overall survival of childhood ADHD cases versus controls was 1.88 ( 95 % confidence interval [ CI ] , 0.83–4.26 ; P = .13 ) and for accidents only was 1.70 ( 95 % CI , 0.49–5.97 ; P = .41 ) . However , the cause-specific mortality for suicide only was significantly higher among ADHD cases ( SMR , 4.83 ; 95 % CI , 1.14–20.46 ; P = .032 ) . Among the childhood ADHD cases participating in the prospect i ve assessment ( N = 232 ; mean age , 27.0 years ) , ADHD persisted into adulthood for 29.3 % ( 95 % CI , 23.5–35.2 ) . Participating childhood ADHD cases were more likely than controls ( N = 335 ; mean age , 28.6 years ) to have ≥1 other psychiatric disorder ( 56.9 % vs 34.9 % ; odds ratio , 2.6 ; 95 % CI , 1.8–3.8 ; P < .01 ) . CONCLUSIONS : Childhood ADHD is a chronic health problem , with significant risk for mortality , persistence of ADHD , and long-term morbidity in adulthood OBJECTIVE Numerous studies have examined the adolescent and young adult fate of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) .  In marked contrast , relatively little is known about the adult outcome of these children . There have been only two controlled , prospect i ve studies of psychiatric status into adulthood . The present study was conducted to gain further underst and ing of the natural course of this common childhood condition . METHOD This was a prospect i ve follow-up of clinical ly diagnosed , white boys of average intelligence who were referred by teachers to a child psychiatric research clinic at an average age of 7.3 years . At a mean age of 24.1 years , 85 prob and s ( 82 % of the childhood cohort ) and 73 comparison subjects ( 94 % of adolescent comparison subjects ) were directly interviewed by trained clinicians who were blind to group status . RESULTS Evaluations of the prob and s and comparison subjects indicated significantly higher prevalences of antisocial personality disorder ( 12 % versus 3 % ) and nonalcohol substance abuse ( 12 % versus 4 % ) in the prob and s , whereas mood disorders ( 4 % versus 4 % ) and anxiety disorders ( 2 % versus 7 % ) were not significantly different . At adult follow-up , ADHD was rare , occurring in only 4 % of the prob and s ( no comparison subjects ) . CONCLUSIONS The results of the present study are consistent with the authors ' previously reported major findings . They strongly suggest that children with ADHD are at significantly higher risk for a specific negative course marked by antisocial and substance-related disorders OBJECTIVE To evaluate the predictors of persistence and the timing of remission of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) . METHOD Subjects were 6- to 17-year old Caucasian , non-Hispanic boys with and without ADHD . DSM-III-R structured diagnostic interviews and blind raters were used to examine psychiatric diagnoses , cognitive achievement , social , school , and family functioning at a 4-year follow-up assessment . RESULTS At the 4-year follow-up assessment , 85 % of children with ADHD continued to have the disorder and 15 % remitted . Of those who remitted , half did so in childhood and the other half in adolescence . Predictors of persistence were familiality of ADHD , psychosocial adversity , and comorbidity with conduct , mood , and anxiety disorders . CONCLUSIONS The findings prospect ively confirm that the majority of children with ADHD will continue to express the disorder 4 years later . For a minority of children , ADHD was a transient disorder that remits early in development . In addition , we have shown that persistence of ADHD is predictable . Familiality , adversity , and psychiatric comorbidity may be clinical ly useful predictors of which children with ADHD are at risk for a persistent disorder BACKGROUND Our objective was to estimate the lifetime prevalence of psychopathology in a sample of youth with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) through young adulthood using contemporaneous diagnostic and analytic techniques . METHOD We conducted a case-control , 10-year prospect i ve study of ADHD youth . At baseline , we assessed consecutively referred male , Caucasian children with ( n=140 ) and without ( n=120 ) DSM-III-R ADHD , aged 6 - 18 years , ascertained from psychiatric and pediatric sources to allow for generalizability of results . At the 10-year follow-up , 112 ( 80 % ) and 105 ( 88 % ) of the ADHD and control children , respectively , were reassessed ( mean age 22 years ) . We created the following categories of psychiatric disorders : Major Psychopathology ( mood disorders and psychosis ) , Anxiety Disorders , Antisocial Disorders ( conduct , oppositional-defiant , and antisocial personality disorder ) , Developmental Disorders ( elimination , language , and tics disorder ) , and Substance Dependence Disorders ( alcohol , drug , and nicotine dependence ) , as measured by blinded structured diagnostic interview . RESULTS The lifetime prevalence for all categories of psychopathology were significantly greater in ADHD young adults compared to controls , with hazard ratios and 95 % confidence intervals of 6.1 ( 3.5 - 10.7 ) , 2.2 ( 1.5 - 3.2 ) , 5.9 ( 3.9 - 8.8 ) , 2.5 ( 1.7 - 3.6 ) , and 2.0 ( 1.3 - 3.0 ) , respectively , for the categories described above . CONCLUSIONS By their young adult years , ADHD youth were at high risk for a wide range of adverse psychiatric outcomes including markedly elevated rates of antisocial , addictive , mood and anxiety disorders . These prospect i ve findings provide further evidence for the high morbidity associated with ADHD across the life-cycle and stress the importance of early recognition of this disorder for prevention and intervention strategies The psychiatric outcome is reported for a large sample of hyperactive children ( N = 123 ) , meeting research diagnostic criteria , and normal control children ( N = 66 ) followed prospect ively over an 8-year period into adolescence . Over 80 % of the hyperactives were attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) and 60 % had either oppositional defiant disorder and /or conduct disorder at outcome . Rates of antisocial acts were considerably higher among hyperactives than normals , as were cigarette and marijuana use and negative academic outcomes . The presence of conduct disorder accounted for much though not all of these outcomes . Family status of hyperactives was much less stable over time than in the normal subjects . The use of research criteria for diagnosing children as hyperactive identifies a pattern of behavioral symptoms that is highly stable over time and associated with considerably greater risk for family disturbance and negative academic and social outcomes in adolescence than has been previously reported
target: Conclusions These findings suggest that the apps may not be suitable in meeting the complex needs associated with this condition .
background: Background Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ) is a complex highly comorbid disorder , which can have a huge impact on those with ADHD , their family , and the community around them .
  ADHD is currently managed using pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions .
  However , with advances in technology and an increase in the use of mobile apps , managing ADHD can be augmented using apps specifically design ed for this population .
  However , little is known regarding the suitability and usability of currently available apps .
  Objective The aim of this study was to explore the suitability of the top 10 listed apps for children and young people with ADHD and clinicians who work with them .
  It is hypothesized that mobile apps design ed for this population could be more suitably design ed for this population .