Renewed Current Care Recommendation warns of overdiagnosed ADHD
Health|The new recommendation emphasizes the effect of lifestyle on functional capacity.
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Duodecim medical club warns of overdiagnosis of ADHD in its new current Care Recommendation.
The recommendation emphasizes a broader performance assessment and the impact of lifestyle.
ADHD diagnoses and medication have become more common in children and adolescents in Finland in recent years.
Experts advise you to pay attention to, for example, screen time and play in the child’s development.
Medical club Duodecim warns of overdiagnosis of activity and attention to ADHD.
Duodecim has announced the revised Current Care Recommendation, which states that too early assessment of ADHD symptoms may result in other disturbances and causes unrecognized.
Helsingin Sanomat is reported Children’s adhd diagnoses have exploded in Finland.
« Everyone seems to be in a hurry to get diagnoses of ADHD or Autism spectrum if the child has something specialty, »
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Children’s Neuropsychiatry Assistant Chief Riikka Riihonen March in Helsingin Sanomat.
He estimates that there is a desire that the child’s symptoms would be explained by a clear disorder to be treated.
Adhd is a neural development syndrome, which is manifested, among other things, in impulsiveness, overactivity, learning difficulties, and problems with attention and ERP.
The National Institute for Health and Welfare According to THL By 2023, about 11 % of primary school age and 10 % of boys aged 13-17 were a diagnosis of ADHD. For girls, the corresponding figures were 4 and 6 %.
The use of ADHD drugs is also becoming more common. According to the registry data managed by Kela, nearly 46,500 children and adolescents were used by ADHD in 2023.
Renewed Current Care Recommendation specifies the ADHD diagnosis process, says chairman of the recommendation team, specialist in pediatric psychiatry Anita Puustjärvi In Duodecim magazine.
« In practice, it is about not first to fill out the ADHD questionnaire, but to evaluate the person’s ability, difficulties and strengths more widely, » says Puustjärvi.
He calls for attention, for example, to lifestyle.
For example, a rich screen time, according to him, is a risk factor that may shape the brain in the direction of ADHD-type symptoms, even if there is no neurobiological susceptibility.
According to research, the child’s brain needs a lot of play and interaction to develop normally.
« That’s why parents also have to pay attention to their own screen time with the child, » says Puustjärvi.
He emphasizes that refinements for the current Care Recommendation are intended to target research and treatment to those that benefit most of it.
“The high demand for ADHD studies will congest services and slow down the access to severe symptoms. They should be treated without long queuing,” Puustjärvi points out.
Untreated, ADHD can harm his studies and employment, and increase the risk of psychiatric disorders, exclusion and substance abuse.
