Children with ADHD in the cohort were disproportionately male and from families reporting financial difficulty or social housing¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2015 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Descriptively, the ADHD group contained more boys (83.9% vs 50.5%), more families in financial difficulty (27.78% vs 14.44%) and more council/housing-association tenancy (17.8% vs 10.1%). → Russell AE 2015

Evidence¶

Russell AE 2015¶

Russell AE, Ford T, Russell G (2015) Socioeconomic Associations with ADHD: Findings from a Mediation Analysis. PLoS ONE 10(6): e0128248. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128248

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Descriptive statistics comparing families of children with a DAWBA research diagnosis of ADHD at age 7 (175 children, 2.13% of the sample) with those without; the ADHD group also had 83.9% boys vs 50.5% and more council/HA housing (17.8% vs 10.1%). These are descriptive percentages with no test reported.

"Proportionately more of the fami-lies of children with ADHD reported being in financial difficulty (27.78% vs 14.44% respective-ly) or having a large family (7.74% vs 4.87% respectively)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Family adversity and lower parental involvement mediate 27.8% of the association between early financial difficulty and ADHD at age 7
• Parental education and occupational status showed no significant association with ADHD in this sample
• Housing tenure, marital status, maternal age and financial difficulties are each significantly associated with ADHD at age 7 in unadjusted analysis — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Perceived financial difficulty in early childhood is the socioeconomic indicator most strongly associated with a research diagnosis of ADHD at age 7 — related