Correlates, Associated Impairments and Patterns of Service Utilization of Children with Attention Deficit Disorder: Findings from the Ontario Child Health Study

The objective of this paper is to report on the correlates of attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity (ADDH), the associated impairments of ADDH children, and to describe briefly their utilization of services. Our results suggest that household, family, parental, and developmental variables are associated with this disorder. However, child-centered, rather than psychosocial, variables emerge as important if one controls for the presence …