Empirically Determined, Psychopathological Subtypes in Children With ADHD

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Empirically Determined, Psychopathological Subtypes in Children With ADHD

Christine M. Freitag Christina Schwenck Susann Hänig Haukur Palmason Sonja Beuth Christiane Seitz Eva Westerwald Catharina Schmidt Jobst Meyer Yvonne Zenglein

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Conduct Disorder Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Poison control CBCL Comorbidity behavioral disciplines and activities 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Risk Factors mental disorders Injury prevention Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Cluster Analysis Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Risk factor Child Psychiatry Child Behavior Checklist Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Psychopathology 05 social sciences medicine.disease Comorbidity Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Clinical Psychology Socioeconomic Factors Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders Conduct disorder Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology Psychopathology Clinical psychology

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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to empirically determine subgroups of ADHD defined by specific patterns of psychopathology. METHOD: A clinical sample of 223 children with ADHD, aged 5 to 14 years, was examined with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). In addition, comorbid psychiatric disorders, psychosocial risk factors, and socioeconomic status were assessed. RESULTS: Cluster analysis of CBCL subscales yielded a solution with four distinct subgroups. While "externalizers" showed a high rate of comorbid oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD), "obsessive-compulsives" exhibited thought problems, low rates of comorbid CD, and high symptoms of inattention. "High psychiatric symptom carriers" had high rates of familial risk factors, acute life events, comorbid ODD, and CD. "Low psychiatric symptom carriers" also scored low in all other variables studied. CONCLUSION: Children with ADHD can be divided into four subgroups according to their CBCL-based psychopathology, and these subgroups differ in their risk factor profiles. (J. of Att. Dis. 2013; XX(X) XX-XX). Language: en

year	journal	country	edition	language
2013-10-24	Journal of Attention Disorders

https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054713508312