Parents' goals guide ADHD treatment choice - full text

Chris Engel 9/3/139:32 PM

"Parents' goals for treating their child's attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tend to steer the treatment in a distinct direction, new research shows....

"When parents' main concern was their child's academic performance, they often chose medications as the treatment of choice, but if parents were more worried about their child's behavior they tended to opt for behavioral therapy as an initial treatment...."

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-09-parents-goals-adhd-treatment-choice.html

Fiks, et al. (2013). "Parental Preferences and Goals Regarding ADHD Treatment." Pediatrics. Full text.

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