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- Title
Health-related quality of life and peer relationships in adolescents with developmental coordination disorder and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder.
- Authors
Dewey, Deborah; Volkovinskaia, Anna
- Abstract
<bold>Aim: </bold>Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and peer relationships were investigated in adolescents with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).<bold>Method: </bold>Adolescents with DCD (n=9), ADHD (n=9), DCD and ADHD (n=10), and typically developing adolescents (n=16) completed the following questionnaires: KIDSCREEN-52 Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire and Peer Relations Questionnaire for Children. Twenty-five participants took part in semi-structured interviews.<bold>Results: </bold>Adolescents with DCD and ADHD had lower HRQoL on the mood and emotions, school environment, and financial resources scales of the KIDSCREEN-52 than adolescents in the DCD and typically developing groups (all p<0.05). On the Peer Relations Questionnaire for Children, the DCD and ADHD group reported significantly higher victimization compared with those in the typically developing (p=0.030) and DCD (p=0.010) groups. Qualitative interviews among young people with DCD and ADHD revealed feelings of marginalization and victimization. Descriptors such as 'misfits', 'oddballs', 'weird', and 'the rejects' were used to describe themselves.<bold>Interpretation: </bold>HRQoL and peer relationships are negatively affected in adolescents with DCD and ADHD. WHAT THIS PAPER ADDS?: Children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) do not display poorer overall health-related quality of life (HRQoL) versus typically developing controls. Having DCD and attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was associated with poorer HRQoL. Adolescents with DCD and ADHD experience significantly higher levels of peer victimization than typically developing adolescents. HRQoL and peer relationships are significantly associated in adolescent respondents.
- Subjects
MOVEMENT disorders; QUALITY of life; HUMAN behavior; SELF-perception; SCHOOL environment; LEISURE &; psychology; MENTAL health; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; COMPARATIVE studies; DEVELOPMENTAL disabilities; FRIENDSHIP; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; PSYCHOMOTOR disorders; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH; RESEARCH funding; EVALUATION research; DISEASE complications; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2018, Vol 60, Issue 7, p711
- ISSN
0012-1622
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/dmcn.13753