A Longitudinal Study on Attention Development in Primary School Children with and without Teacher-Reported Symptoms of ADHD

Suades González, Elisabet; Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-; García Esteban, Raquel; López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Esnaola, Mikel; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Cáceres, Alejandro; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; López-Sala, Anna; Sunyer Deu, Jordi

A Longitudinal Study on Attention Development in Primary School Children with and without Teacher-Reported Symptoms of ADHD

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dc.contributor.author Suades González, Elisabetca
dc.contributor.author Forns i Guzman, Joan, 1981-ca
dc.contributor.author García Esteban, Raquelca
dc.contributor.author López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-ca
dc.contributor.author Esnaola, Mikelca
dc.contributor.author Álvarez Pedrerol, Marca
dc.contributor.author Júlvez Calvo, Jordica
dc.contributor.author Cáceres, Alejandroca
dc.contributor.author Basagaña Flores, Xavierca
dc.contributor.author López-Sala, Annaca
dc.contributor.author Sunyer Deu, Jordica
dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-04T07:58:54Z
dc.date.available 2017-07-04T07:58:54Z
dc.date.issued 2017
dc.description.abstract Background: Prospective longitudinal studies are essential in characterizing cognitive trajectories, yet few of them have been reported on the development of attention processes in children. We aimed to explore attention development in normal children and children with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in a repeated measures design using the attention network test (ANT). Methods: The population sample included 2,835 children (49.6% girls) aged 7–11 years from 39 schools in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) who performed the ANT four times from January 2012 to March 2013. According to teacher ratings, 10.5% of the children presented ADHD symptoms. We performed multilevel mixed-effects linear regression models, adjusting for school and individual, to test the effects of age-related growth on the ANT networks: alerting, orienting and executive attention, and three measurements related to attentiveness: median of hit reaction time (HRT), hit reaction time standard error (HRT-SE) and variability. Results: We observed age-related growth in all the outcomes, except orienting. The curves were steeper at the younger groups, although for alertness the improvement was further at the oldest ages. Gender and ADHD symptoms interacted with age in executive attention, HRT and variability. Girls performed better in executive attention at young ages although boys reached females at around 10 years of age. For HRT, males showed faster HRT. However, girls had a more pronounced improvement and reached the levels of boys at age 11. Children with ADHD symptoms had significant differences in executive attention, HRT and variability compared to children without ADHD symptoms. Conclusions: We detected an ongoing development of some aspects of attention in primary school children, differentiating patterns by gender and ADHD symptoms. Our findings support the ANT for assessing attention processes in children in large epidemiological studies.
dc.description.sponsorship The research leading to these results received funding from the European Research Council under the ERC Grant Agreement number 268479 – the BREATHE project. JJ holds a Miguel Servet contract (MS14/00108) awarded by the Spanish Institute of Health Carlos III (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness).
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dc.identifier.citation Suades-González E, Forns i Guzman J, García-Esteban R, López-Vicente M, Esnaola M, Álvarez Pedrerol M et al. A Longitudinal Study on Attention Development in Primary School Children with and without Teacher-Reported Symptoms of ADHD. Frontiers in Psychology. 2017;8:655. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00655
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00655
dc.identifier.issn 1664-1078
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32496
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Frontiersca
dc.relation.ispartof Frontiers in Psychology. 2017;8:655
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/268479
dc.rights © 2017 Suades-González, Forns, García-Esteban, López-Vicente, Esnaola, Álvarez-Pedrerol, Julvez, Cáceres, Basagaña, López-Sala and Sunyer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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dc.subject.keyword Attention network test
dc.subject.keyword Attention
dc.subject.keyword Children
dc.subject.keyword Neurodevelopment
dc.subject.keyword Multilevel analysis
dc.subject.keyword Population study
dc.subject.keyword Longitudinal study
dc.title A Longitudinal Study on Attention Development in Primary School Children with and without Teacher-Reported Symptoms of ADHDca
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