Quality of life in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in different age groups

الملخص EN

Background: Attention- deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) represents one of the most prevalent childhood psychiatric disorders.

Untreated ADHD is likely to hare negative impact on most domains of quality of life (QoL).

Aim ot the study: To evaluate the quality of lift.

(QoL) of children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) in different age groups who attend the dinics of the Faculty of Postgraduate Childhood Studies (FPGCS), Ain Shams University.

Study design: Case, control study.

Methods: 5 groups were included in this study from age 4 to 18 years old.

All subjects were subjected to full medical history and general clinical examination, psychiatric history and examination according to the psychiatric sheet of the dinic of the FPGCS, psychological assessments using Stanford Binet 5th edition and Attention Defidt Hyperactivity Disorder symptoms were rated according to Hie Conners Comprehensive Behavior Rating Scale for diagnosis and severity.

Qol was measured with a questionnaire using the Pediatric Quality of Life Generic Core Inventory version 4.0 (PedsQL) and family sodoeconomic status of the cases was measured using Al- Shakhs 2013 rating scale questionnaire.

The collected data were analyzed using {Statistical Package for Sorial Sciences) software version 12.0, IBM Corp., Chicago, USA, 2004.

Results: There was group matching between ADHD and control research groups as regards demographic characteristics.

Socioeconomic dasses were closely matched (P value=0.2 36).

Most of the studied ADHD cases had moderate ADHD severity 40.4% of the studied data.

Sex differences shows male predominant in all severities, P= 0.039.

Regarding Socioeconomic dasses, severe foim of ADHD was found among lower' sodoeconomic class (64.5%), highly significant results p< 0.001, Physical functioning score statistically significantly decreased as ADHD severity increased, (p value<0.001) Other scores and total score significantly increased as ADHD severity increased (p value <0.001).

Health and activities score decreased as ADHD severity increased.

Other scores and total score increased as ADHD severity increased in a statistically significant manner (p value <0.001), Conclusion: Quality of life is negatively affected in children having ADHD with male affecting more than female in physical domains and lower sodal dass was negatively affeded more than high sodal class patients.