An increased awareness of ADHD symptoms in adulthood may be prompting people to seek a diagnosis
“A lot of it is the increasing awareness amongst patients and clinicians, making it more likely that their symptoms are detected and attributed to ADHD,” says Mckechnie. Common symptoms include difficulty concentrating, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.The increase in cases could also be due to a better understanding of how ADHD continues beyond childhood, he says.
Among children, diagnoses also rose over that 18-year period in all age groups aside from those between 3 and 5 years old, where rates approximately halved in boys and decreased by a third in girls.children is unclear. ADHD medication isn’t recommended for children younger than 6, so doctors may be less inclined to diagnose people in this age group, says Mckechnie.
The researchers also found that the number of ADHD diagnoses among both adults and children were almost twice as high in the most deprived areas of the UK compared with the least deprived ones. It is unclear why this is the case, but a variety ofand environmental factors could play a role, says Mckechnie. People who are genetically pre-disposed to have ADHD may find that it affects their schooling and careers, which could result in them living in more deprived areas, he says.
Though the findings only go up to 2018, Mckechnie says the rates of ADHD diagnoses are probably even higher now. “In my clinical experience as a GP [general practitioner], requests for ADHD assessments from patients have become much more common since 2020,” he says.
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