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Lei Feng¹, Yu-feng Wang, Juan Wang

¹Institute of Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing 100083, China.

Beijing Da Xue Xue Bao. Yi Xue Ban = Journal of Peking University. Health Sciences

|June 19, 2007

Abstract

Objective:

To investigate whether the likelihood of balance impairment in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) increases with the presence of disruptive behavior disorder (DBD), and whether the likelihood of co-occurring diagnosis of DBD increases in ADHD children with severer balance deficit.

Methods:

Three groups of 20 children each, representing pure ADHD, ADHD+DBD, and typically developing control children, were included and group matched by age and gender. Balance functions were assessed with the Balance Master in different conditions. We compared the percentages of children in each group who swayed faster than 85% of the typical control children in all conditions.

Results:

In the conditions of firm surface with eyes open (FI/EO) and eyes closed (FI/EC), and foam surface with eyes open (FO/EO) and eyes closed (FO/EC), the sway velocities of ADHD only group (0.65+/-0.26 degrees /s, 0.65+/-0.30 degrees /s, 0.95+/-0.29 degrees /s, and 1.70+/-0.49 degrees /s, respectively) were significantly higher than those of the typical control group (0.47+/-0.18 degrees /s, 0.43+/-0.19 degrees /s, 0.76+/-0.21 degrees /s, and 1.27+/-0.38 degrees /s, respectively) (P<0.05). The sway velocities of ADHD+DBD group (1.00+/-0.33 degrees /s and 1.78+/-0.66 degrees /s)were significantly higher than those of the control group only in FO/EO and FO/EC conditions (P<0.05). There was no difference between the two case groups. The percentages of children who swayed faster than 85% of normal children in the ADHD only group (50%, 50%, and 50%, respectively) were significantly higher than those of typical control group (10%, 5%, and 10%, respectively) in the conditions of FI/EO, FI/EC, and FO/EC (P<0.01); There was no difference between ADHD+DBD group and control group; In FI/EC condition, the percentage of ADHD only group (50%) was significantly higher than that of ADHD+DBD group (P<0.01).

Conclusion:

Balance impairment in ADHD did not increase as a function of co-occurring DBD, and was due to the ADHD itself rather than to the coexisting DBD; and the probability of co-occurring DBD did not increase in ADHD with severer balance deficit.

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