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The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys
- Source :
- ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders, 9(1), 47-65. SPRINGER WIEN, Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer, 2016.
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Abstract
- We previously reported on the cross-national epidemiology of ADHD from the first 10 countries in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) Surveys. The current report expands those previous findings to the 20 nationally or regionally representative WMH surveys that have now collected data on adult ADHD. The Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) was administered to 26,744 respondents in these surveys in high-, upper-middle-, and low-/lower-middle-income countries (68.5% mean response rate). Current DSM-IV/CIDI adult ADHD prevalence averaged 2.8% across surveys and was higher in high (3.6%)- and upper-middle (3.0%)- than low-/lower-middle (1.4%)-income countries. Conditional prevalence of current ADHD averaged 57.0% among childhood cases and 41.1% among childhood subthreshold cases. Adult ADHD was significantly related to being male, previously married, and low education. Adult ADHD was highly comorbid with DSM-IV/CIDI anxiety, mood, behavior, and substance disorders and significantly associated with role impairments (days out of role, impaired cognition, and social interactions) when controlling for comorbidities. Treatment seeking was low in all countries and targeted largely to comorbid conditions rather than to ADHD. These results show that adult ADHD is prevalent, seriously impairing, and highly comorbid but vastly under-recognized and undertreated across countries and cultures.
- Subjects :
- Male
Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data
Comorbidity
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Epidemiology
Prevalence
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/epidemiology
Young adult
Mental Disorders
General Medicine
CIDI
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Impairment
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Income
Anxiety
Female
medicine.symptom
ADHD
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Disability epidemiology
Treatment
Adolescent
Adult
Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity
Developed Countries
Developing Countries
Humans
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
Young Adult
Health Surveys
World Health Organization
Psychology
Clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty
purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.02.24 [https]
purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.01.00 [https]
behavioral disciplines and activities
Article
03 medical and health sciences
mental disorders
medicine
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Psychiatry
Salut mundial
Developed Countries/statistics & numerical data
Developing Countries/statistics & numerical data
medicine.disease
Mental health
030227 psychiatry
Mood
Trastorn per dèficit d'atenció amb hiperactivitat
Malalties mentals
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Mental Disorders/epidemiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 18666116
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ADHD Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders, 9(1), 47-65. SPRINGER WIEN, Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya, instname
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f0e670badb4cf274f0afdd8ebdf409f9