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dc.contributor.authorKazda, Luise
dc.contributor.authorMcGeechan, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorBell, Katy J.L.
dc.contributor.authorThomas, Rae
dc.contributor.authorBarratt, Alexandra
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-01T03:39:39Z
dc.date.available2023-03-01T03:39:39Z
dc.date.issued2022en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2123/30136
dc.description.abstractBackground Globally, ADHD diagnoses have increased substantially and there is concern that this trend does not necessarily reflect improved detection of cases but that overdiagnosis may be occurring. We directly compared ADHD diagnoses with ADHD-related behaviours and looked for changes across time among Australian children in a large, population-based prospective cohort study. Methods We conducted a secondary analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, including 4,699 children born 1999/2000 (cohort 1) and 4,425 children born 2003/2004 (cohort 2), followed from 4 to 13 years of age. We compared pre-diagnosis parent-reported hyperactive/inattentive behaviour scores between newly diagnosed (incident cases) and undiagnosed children and fitted Cox's proportional hazards regression models to examine the relationship between birth cohorts 1 and 2 and the risk of incident ADHD diagnosis. Results Cumulative incident ADHD diagnoses increased from 4.6% in cohort 1 (born in 1999/2000) to 5.6% in cohort 2 (born in 2003/2004), while hyperactive/inattentive behaviour scores remained steady. Among ADHD diagnosed children, 26.5% (88/334) recorded pre-diagnosis behaviours in the normal range, 27.6% (n = 92) had borderline scores and 45.8% (n = 153) scored within the clinical range. Children born in 2003/2004 were more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD compared with those born in 1999/2000 (aHR = 1.33, 95% CI = 1.06–1.67, p = .012), regardless of their ADHD behaviour score (p = .972). Conclusions Diagnostic increases were not driven by rises in hyperactive/inattentive behaviours. A quarter of all children with an ADHD diagnosis recorded pre-diagnosis behaviours within the normal range. The increased likelihood of being diagnosed with ADHD for children from the later birth cohort was observed for children across the full range of ADHD-related behaviours.en_AU
dc.language.isoenen_AU
dc.publisherWileyen_AU
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatryen_AU
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0en_AU
dc.subjectAttention-deficit hyperactivity disorderen_AU
dc.subjectAustraliaen_AU
dc.subjectadolescentsen_AU
dc.subjectchildrenen_AU
dc.subjectepidemiologyen_AU
dc.titleIncreased diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder despite stable hyperactive/inattentive behaviours: evidence from two birth cohorts of Australian childrenen_AU
dc.typeArticleen_AU
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jcpp.13700
dc.type.pubtypePublisher's versionen_AU
dc.relation.nhmrc1113532
dc.relation.nhmrc1104136
dc.relation.nhmrc1174523
usyd.facultySeS faculties schools::Faculty of Medicine and Health::Sydney School of Public Healthen_AU
workflow.metadata.onlyYesen_AU


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