ADHD and Mental Health Status in Brazilian School-Age Children

Journal of Attention Disorders

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-17

  Arruda, Marco A ^a   Querido, Cícero Nardini ^b,c   Bigal, Marcelo E ^d,e   Polanczyk, Guilherme V ^b,c  

^a Glia Institute   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c National Institute of Developmental Psychiatry for Children and Adolescents (INCT CNPq)   (Brazil)

^d MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; children; epidemiology; mental health; risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAZIL; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84919663141     PISSN: 10870547     EISSN: 15571246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1087054712446811     Document Type: Article

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