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Study: Raising a Child with ADHD Negatively Impacts Caregivers’ Mental Wellbeing

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July 27, 2020Raising a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD or ADD) negatively impacts a caregiver’s mental wellbeing, hours and quality of sleep, satisfaction with leisure time, health, life satisfaction, and happiness with relationships, according to a new study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders.1Researchers in the U.K.

studied 549 families with at least one child (aged 6-18) with ADHD, and compared them to two control groups — one taken from the U.K.’s largest household longitudinal study and the other from a cohort of 18,000 patients from South Yorkshire.

Matching procedures were used to ensure a balance in key characteristics, including parental education, gender, and age. Researchers then used the.

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