Autores: Meghan Miller; Jennifer Ho; Stephen P. Hinshaw.
Resumen
We prospectively followed an etnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of girls with ADHD (n= 140) and matched comparison group (n= 88) into young adulthtood (M = 19.6), 10 years after childhood intinal assesments, to evaluate neuropsycological functioning. We hypothesized those with continuing ADHD symptomatology in young adulthood would show the largest impairments. Method: Beuropsycological measures at follow-up emphasized executivefunctions (EF) including planning, organization, inhibitory control, sustained attetion, working memory, and set shifting. Results: Parallel to findings from chibhood and adolescence, the girls with chilhood-diagnosed ADHD displayed medium to large deficits in EF relative to comparisions at follow-up, even with satistical control of baseline demographic and comorbidity variables. The addition of IQ as a covariate attentuaned diffrences but several remained significant. Comparisons between the inattentive and combined subtypes of ADHD yielded nonsignificant results with small effect sizes. EF impairments were evident in both particpants whose ADHD.
