Estudio familiar del trastorno por déficit de atención/hiperactividad
Previous research has shown that the Attention Deficit Disorderis more frequent among first degree relatives of children withthis disorder than in controls. Unfortunately, this has beenreported only in Caucasians. The diagnosis of this disorder hasto do with tolerance to disruptive behaviour and usu...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2002 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla |
| Repositorio: | Redalyc-BUAP |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:redalyc.org:58232505 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=58232505 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Medicina genetics hyperactivity family based studies Attention deficit disorder |
| Sumario: | Previous research has shown that the Attention Deficit Disorderis more frequent among first degree relatives of children withthis disorder than in controls. Unfortunately, this has beenreported only in Caucasians. The diagnosis of this disorder hasto do with tolerance to disruptive behaviour and usually is relatedto sociocultural factors.This investigation tests the hypothesis that the ADDH is morefrequent among parents and siblings of ADD children than inthe general population, which replicates previous researchvalidating those findings.In this case-control study, children with ADDH and childrenwithout it were included, as well as both parents and siblings.Index cases and siblings were evaluated with semi-structuredinterviews to diagnose them according to the DSM-III-R. TheWender Utah Rating Scale (WURS) was used for diagnosing theattention deficit hyperactivity disorder in their parents. All diagnosiswere blind to the index case or control.Fifty-two children and 49 siblings with ADDH, and 26 childrenand 27 siblings without it were interviewed. Only families withboth parents available were included, therefore the Wender UtahRating Scale was applied to 78 mothers and 78 fathers. With acut-off point of 36 in the WURS, the frequency of ADDH was23% among the fathers of children with ADDH, and 3.8% amongcontrols. The odds ratio was 7.5, which is statiscally significant.Prevalence among siblings was 22% for ADDH, and 7% for non-ADDH.Our results confirm previous research. |
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