Written by Susan Molchan, MD, a regular contributors at HealthNewsReview.org, who has previously worked at the FDA, and is a member of the NPA Board of Directors and FDA Task Force. Cross-posted from HealthNewsReview.org
“Do You Zone Out? Procrastinate? Might be Adult ADHD.”
If you think this sounds like the prelude to a drug commercial you’re not far off the mark. This NPR story reports on a short screening scale or test for adult attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) disorder as published in JAMA Psychiatry. The gist of the news was the researchers’ claim that “six simple questions” can reliably diagnose adults with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. And diagnose it they did: the researchers found that 8.2% of those sampled suffered from ADHD, almost double that found from a comparable study about 10 years ago.
I wish health journalists had asked one simple question in order to give their readers much needed context: Who funded the research? Just follow the money.
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Barbara Meier schreibt seit vielen Jahren für die NPAlliance Ratgeber und Testberichte. Dabei legt sie großen Wert auf die Ausführlichkeit sowie Richtigkeit ihrer Artikel. Sie zählt zu den wenigen Experten in ihrem Gebiet und hat sich über die letzten Jahren einen Namen in der Gesundheitsbranche gemacht.