Journal article
The quality of life of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review
M Danckaerts, EJS Sonuga-Barke, T Banaschewski, J Buitelaar, M Döpfner, C Hollis, P Santosh, A Rothenberger, J Sergeant, HC Steinhausen, E Taylor, A Zuddas, D Coghill
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Published : 2010
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Abstract
Quality of life (QoL) describes an individual's subjective perception of their position in life as evidenced by their physical, psychological, and social functioning. QoL has become an increasingly important measure of outcome in child mental health clinical work and research. Here we provide a systematic review of QoL studies in children and young people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and address three main questions. (1) What is the impact of ADHD on QoL? (2) What are the relationships between ADHD symptoms, functional impairment and the mediators and moderators of QoL in ADHD? (3) Does the treatment of ADHD impact on QoL? Databases were systematically searched to ide..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This paper is derived from a work group meeting of the European ADHD Guidelines Group which was supported by an unrestricted educational grant (costs of the meeting only) from: Elli Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, and Novartis & Shire.