Clinical relevance of the primary findings of the MTA: success rates based on severity of ADHD and ODD symptoms at the end of treatment.

By James M. Swanson, H. Kraemer, S. Hinshaw, L. Arnold, C. Conners, H. Abikoff, Walter Clevenger, M. Davies, G. Elliott, L. Greenhill and 14 more. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

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Evidence-Based Psychosocial Treatments for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (2008, background): “Perhaps the most well-known and widely cited study of treatments for ADHD is the Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD (MTA; Conners et al., 2001; Jensen, 2001; MTACG, 1999a, 1999b; Swanson et al., 2001; Wells et al., 2000).”
Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder: a review of the past 10 years, part II. (2002, methodology): “Secondary analyses of the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Multisite Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder suggest that success rates for the treatment of ODD with comorbid ADHD improve 20% when psychosocial treatment is added to medica”
School‐based Intervention for Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Effects on academic, social, and behavioural functioning (2006, background): “Specifically, the combination of psychostimulant medication and psychosocial interventions appears necessary to optimise outcomes for the majority of children with this disorder (MTA Cooperative Group, 1999; Swanson et al., 2001).”
A systematic review and analysis of long-term outcomes in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: effects of treatment and non-treatment (2012, background): “In two secondary analyses compositing several outcome measures, combined treatment was significantly better than pharmacological treatment alone [36-38].”
3-year follow-up of the NIMH MTA study. (2007, methodology): “…any single measure, it provided statistically significant although clinically modest advantages on composite outcome measures (Conners et al., 2001; Swanson et al., 2001) for those with comorbid anxiety plus disruptive behavior disorders (Jensen et al., 2001) and for parent and teacher…”
Peer functioning in children with ADHD. (2007, methodology): “measure of ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms in prior MTA analyses.(33) When applied to the”
European clinical guidelines for hyperkinetic disorder – first upgrade (2004, background): “Though behavioural therapy may be less effective, it is still helpful for many children and multimodal behavioural interventions with parent training, interventions in school and cognitive behaviour therapy of the child have been shown to be effective in a substantial proportion of patients [162, 36”
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Special Education Programming for Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Using a Daily Report Card (2010, methodology): “For the DBD ODD/CD factor used for this study, scores less than one were considered normalized (see Swanson et al., 2001).”
Findings from the NIMH Multimodal Treatment Study of ADHD (MTA): Implications and Applications for Primary Care Providers (2001, methodology): “In contrast, substituting the Beh-only approaches for the usual treatment may increase success rates in some settings but decrease it in other settings.(15)”