Kids Born in August More Likely to Have ADHD Diagnosis
Hi everyone, meet again on the Jagad Meru channel, a new study has found that kids born in August are more often diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD diagnosis) than kids born a month later in September, and researchers have suggested that rather than looking for some kind of biological or genetic basis to explain this strange phenomenon, we should be looking at when we enforce school year cut-offs.
Though researchers are still debating the particulars of ADHD on a general level, many agree that the real problem is how we diagnose the disorder, especially in children. Now, researchers from Taiwan have analysed data from 378,881 children aged 4 to 17, and say schoolyear cut-off months could go some way in explaining why we can't seem to get it right.
The study, conducted by a team from Taiwan's National Yang-Mind University, found that since children born in August can be much younger than their classmates due to the schoolyear cut-off, they can appear to have the symptoms of ADHD when they're actually just younger and more immature, reports Kj Dell'Antonia for The New York Times.
The best way to wrap your head around all this is to think about two children that are the same age: one born in August - the last month allowed before the cut-off for a particular school year - and one a month later in September. When both of these children reach school age, the August child will enter school a full year before the September child.
Because the September child has missed the schoolyear cut-off, and will be forced to wait till next year to enrol. So, just watch the video until it's finished and don't forget to click like, share, and also subscribe to this channel so you can continue to provide other useful videos.