![]() ![]() ![]() Many publications from different countries point to under-diagnosis and under-treatment as not all young people with ADHD had seen a relevant health specialist (Sayal et al. ![]() In some countries, general practitioners have a gatekeeper function in others, the specialist can be consulted directly. Consequences of this disease are sometimes serious comprising substantial individual, academic, and social functioning.ĭifferent health care systems exist worldwide with distinctive approaches to specialized care in child and adolescent mental health services. Variability in ADHD prevalence estimates is mostly explained by methodological differences of the studies (Polanczyk et al. The prevalence in Germany is largely consistent with these figures (Bachmann et al. 2018) with a worldwide prevalence of approximately 5.3% without much variation over time. Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common behavioral disorders (Göbel et al. ![]()
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