Parental etiological explanations and longitudinal medication use for youths with attention deficit hyperactivity
May Yeh1, Gregory A Aarons, Judy Ho
1Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA, myeh@mail.sdsu.edu.
Abstract:
Due to the need to increase understanding of factors associated with medication usage for youth with ADHD, this study examined parental explanatory etiologies in relationship to psychotropic medication use in a sample of youth who met criteria for ADHD and utilized outpatient specialty mental health services in the previous year. When examined cross-sectionally, medication usage was positively associated with parental explanatory etiologies related to physical causes and negatively associated with those involving sociological causes. Longitudinal analyses did not show a significant effect of Time 1 parental explanatory etiologies on the slope of medication use, suggesting that the relationship between Time 1 parental explanatory etiologies and medication usage remains stable over time for those who have had past year involvement with outpatient specialty mental health services.
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