Agha, Sharifah Shameem  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9541-6786, Zammit, Stanley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-9211, Thapar, Anita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3689-737X and Langley, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2033-2657
2020.
Parent psychopathology and neurocognitive functioning in children with ADHD.
Journal of Attention Disorders
24
(13)
, pp. 1836-1846.
10.1177/1087054717718262
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Abstract
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the association between parent mental health (ADHD and depression) and offspring performance on neurocognitive tasks in children with ADHD. Method: The clinical sample consisted of 570 children (85% males, mean age: 10.77 years) with ADHD who completed neurocognitive tasks measuring working memory, attention set-shifting, and motivational deficits. Questionnaire measures were used to assess ADHD and depression symptom presence in parents. Results: Controlling for ADHD severity, children of parents with ADHD had poorer working memory (B = −0.25, 95% confidence interval [CI] [−0.45, −0.07], p = .01) and increased errors on the extra dimensional shift stage of the set-shifting task (B = 0.26 95% CI [0.02, 0.50], p = .04). Parent depression was not associated with offspring performance on any of the assessed neurocognitive tasks. Conclusion: Children with ADHD who have a parent with ADHD symptom presence are a subgroup of children who may have additional neurocognitive impairments that have potential implications when implementing interventions that target cognition and learning.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology Schools > Medicine Research Institutes & Centres > MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ADHD, neurocognitive functioning, parent ADHD, parent depression |
| Additional Information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. |
| Publisher: | SAGE |
| ISSN: | 1087-0547 |
| Funders: | Wellcome Trust |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 22 May 2017 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 15 May 2017 |
| Last Modified: | 05 May 2023 07:04 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/100746 |
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