Children and Parents With ADHD and Related Disorders

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice2,600 enrolled

Overview

Almost all rating scales for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are not validated in France. This clearly hampers the development of the diagnosis and the monitoring of patients but also research in this domain. This study is conceived to collect data in the general population of children aged from 4 to 18 years in public schools in the city of Nice. Children are pseudo-randomly selected from classes of randomly selected schools in the city of Nice (France). Teachers fill out questionnaires using a dedicated secured website, and ask parents to fill out a similar set of questionnaires regarding their child's behaviour at home. Since ADHD has a strong genetic components, parents are also asked to fill out questionnaires regarding their own behaviour at adulthood and in childhood retrospectively. Additionally, known factors related to ADHD and other disorders as well as other putative factors are tested in the epidemiologic study.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

2,600

Conditions

General Population TDAH Children Aged 5 to 18 Years

Interventions

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 5 YearsMax age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Child known for the teacher for at least three months so that his evaluation Reflect most faithfully possible the usual behavior of the child, * Child having the Frenchman for mother tongue to avoid the consequences on him Behavior of a linguistic obstacle, * Authorization to use the data signed by at least one of the parents of the child and by the very child when he is old at least of six years. * Parents speaking and reading the Frenchman. Exclusion Criteria: * Child known to follow a specific treatment of a disorder(confusion)attentional with / without Hyperactivity-impulsiveness (eg. Ritaline Ò, Ritaline Ò LP, Arranged Ò LP, Strattera Ò) Whatever is its duration. Indeed, a selection on this criterion would introduce a way Major which(who) would return the less reliable results(profits) of the study. * Child presenting a known neurological or psychiatric disorder, or a deficit Intellectual because the attentional disorders(confusions), the psychomotor excitement and The impulsiveness can be symptoms inherent to the other pathologies Neurological and\\or psychiatric.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Validity of studied instruments

The only criterion of evaluation towards the type of the study and its main objective is Validity of the studied instruments

Time frame: at time=0