Katharina Buczek
The team believed this would be useful for two reasons– ensuring their findings could be compared to other research that uses medical records and is relevant to the public.
The study also acknowledged how varying demographic, economic, and social factors contribute differently to the health of mothers and children.
For example, prenatal information alone was not able to predict the amount of ADHD symptoms equally across racial and ethnic groups, genders, and family income brackets.
“And while we only explained up to 10% of the variation in childhood ADHD symptoms, this was with information typically available at birth,” noted Mary Cannon, the study’s co-leader.
“We cannot predict who will develop ADHD in childhood with birth information alone, but it may help identify which children are most in need of support, particularly when combined with other factors like genetics or family history and the early life environment.”
Still, certain factors did stand out in the study as useful for predicting ADHD symptoms in childhood. These factors included mothers having low levels of iron or urinary tract infections, as well as if the child is male or was exposed to factors such as recreational drugs or cigarette smoke while in the womb.
To read the study’s complete findings, which have since been published in Development and Psychopathology, visit the link here.
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