Follow-up Study MTA - ADHD Treatments
Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA)
Press Release
July 20, 2007
Improvement Following ADHD Treatment Sustained in Most Children
But Linked Problems Persist Into Adolescence - Major Follow-up Study
Quote:
Most children treated in a variety of ways for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) showed sustained improvement after three years in a major follow-up study funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Yet increased risk for behavioral problems, including delinquency and substance use, remained higher than normal.
The study followed-up children who had participated in the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA).
Initial advantages of medication management alone or in combination with behavioral treatment over purely behavioral or routine community care waned in the years after 14 months of controlled treatment ended. However, Peter Jensen, M.D., Columbia University, and colleagues emphasized that "it would be incorrect to conclude from these results that treatment makes no difference or is not worth pursuing."
Their report is among four on the outcome of the MTA study published in the August, 2007 Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (JAACAP).
"We were struck by the remarkable improvement in symptoms and functioning across all treatment groups," explained Jensen.
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