Study: ADHD Symptoms in Children Missed by Clinicians for Up to Two Years
January 24, 2024ADHD symptoms in children and adolescents are routinely overlooked by general practitioners (GPs), who see these patients more often than they do their neurotypical peers in the two years preceding a diagnosis, according to the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
With better training in ADHD, GPs could recognize these frequent visits — for everything from asthma and eczema to behavioral disorders — as possible indicators of ADHD and opportunities for early evaluation, say the researchers behind the study.
1The study found that children ultimately diagnosed with ADHD seek medical care, consult healthcare providers, undergo surgery, and get admitted to hospitals at double the rate of their neurotypical peers in the years preceding diagnosis.
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