The MTA at 8 years: prospective follow-up of children treated for combined-type ADHD in a multisite study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine any long-term effects, 6 and 8 years after childhood enrollment, of the randomly assigned 14-month treatments in the NIMH Collaborative Multisite Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA; N = 436); to test whether attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptom trajectory through 3 years predicts outcome in subsequent years; and to examine functioning level of the MTA adolescents relative to their non-ADHD peers (local normative comparison group; N = 261).

Method

Mixed-effects regression models with planned contrasts at 6 and 8 years tested a wide range of symptom and impairment variables assessed by parent, teacher, and youth report.

Results

In nearly every analysis, the originally rando

SUBMITTER: Molina BSG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3063150 | biostudies-literature | 2009 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature