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Article: ADHD goes underdiagnosed in Chinese immigrant families.(Child/Adolescent Psychiatry)(Disease/Disorder overview)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2008
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A very low prevalence of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in New York's Chinatown seems to be attributable to underdiagnosis of the disorder, Dr. Loretta Au said at a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Surveys of 225 Chinese immigrant parents, 178 school faculty (mostly teachers), and 20 community-based pediatricians found that parents lacked knowledge about ADHD, and school staff and physicians reported a wide variety of obstacles to diagnosis and management of ADHD in the Chinatown population, reported Dr. Au of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center, New York, and her ...