The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: a systematic review and metaregression analysis.

By G. Polanczyk, M. S. de Lima, B. Horta, Joseph Biederman, Luis Augusto Rohde. American Journal of Psychiatry, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Methodological guidance for systematic reviews of observational epidemiological studies reporting prevalence and cumulative incidence data (2015, background): “Genuine differences in prevalence are very likely across different populations and settings, for example, in the case of one review assessing the prevalence of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder globally, higher rates were found in North America than in Africa and the Middle East.3 However, it”
Mindfulness Training for Parents and Their Children With ADHD Increases the Children’s Compliance (2010, background): “Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a highly heritable neurobehavioral disorder that affects between 8 and 12% of children worldwide ( Polanczyk et al. 2007 ).”
A systematic review and analysis of long-term outcomes in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: effects of treatment and non-treatment (2012, background): “29% [3,4] with approximately 4% prevalence in adults [5,6].”
EEG Frequency Bands in Psychiatric Disorders: A Review of Resting State Studies (2019, background): “More recent statistics2 suggest that globally, 300 million people are affected by depression, 60 million people suffer from bipolar disorder, 23 million people are affected by schizophrenia, 1 in 160 children has autism spectrum disorder3 and between 5% and 7% of children and adolescents suffer from”
The descriptive epidemiology of DSM-IV Adult ADHD in the World Health Organization World Mental Health Surveys (2016, background): “A recent quantitative analysis of worldwide studies reported pooled current prevalence estimates of 6.5% for children and 2.7% for adolescents (Polanczyk et al. 2007).”
Annual research review: A meta-analysis of the worldwide prevalence of mental disorders in children and adolescents. (2015, background): “56) based on 102 studies that investigated only this disorder (Polanczyk et al., 2007).”
Child and adolescent mental disorders: the magnitude of the problem across the globe. (2008, background): “Polanczyk et al. (2007) in their exhaustive meta-analysis came to the conclusion that methodological differences, rather than geographic factors, were the primary explanation for the variability in global prevalence rates of ADHD/HD.”