ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD) AND TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN SOUTH AFRICAMoodley, MichéMental Health Matters
Little is known about compliance to evidence- based guidelines in low- and middle-income countries, and no clinical audits have been published in Africa. We undertook to measure compliance in a South African setting using the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines for ADHD as...
The varying prevalence rates suggest questionable construct validity of these instruments in the South African context.doi:10.1080/14330237.2011.10820426Alban BurkeAustinWaldeckRoutledgeJournal of Psychology in Africa
The aim of the study was to investigate the aetiology, diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. A questionnaire survey was conducted in 2007. A stratified random sample of pharmacies...
First, the students with ADHD in South Africa performed significantly worse than the other groups (ADHD-United Kingdom, TD-United Kingdom, and TD-South Africa) in verbal and visuospatial short-term memory measures. Next, students with ADHD in the United Kingdom and South Africa exhibited ...
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[2]Regnart J, McCartney J, Truter I. Drug holiday utilisation in ADHD-diagnosed children and adolescents in South Africa. J Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2014;26(2):95-107.
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Kristi, diagnosed with ADHD at 31 in South Africa 1. What made you decide to have your diagnosis? I thought I was heading toward burning out from the pressure at work. ADHD had always been at the back of my mind since being mentioned by a manager I worked with 9 years ago. It had...
In some ways, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has suffered a somewhat different fate of inciting a broad spectrum of opinion based on a similarly broad spectrum of notions of what ADHD “is.” The acronym of A-D-H-D is a brand name that likely will not change any time ...