Do Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder Influence Preschool Unintentional Injury Risk?
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Purpose This study explores the relationship among preschool attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), injury-risk-taking behavior, and unintentional injury.Method An emergency department (ED) casecontrol study of parent-reported child behavior was conducted.Findings Children with ODD and ADHD had significantly more injury-risk-taking behaviors (odds ratio [OR] = 7.68, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.25-26.25; OR = 4.87, 95% CI 1.17--20.28, respectively), and injured children had a 17-fold increase in high-risk-taking behaviors (OR 17.2, 95% CI 2.14--138.0). No significant association existed between ODD or ADHD and ED-treated unintentional injury.Implications Disruptive behavior disorders are not major contributors to ED-treated unintentional injury in preschool children.
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ADHD prospectively predicted risky driving, sexual behavior, gambling, and unintentional injury.
“ADHD also prospectively predicted risky driving, sexual behavior, gambling, and unintentional injury (Breyer et al. 2009; Flory et al. 2006; Garzon et al. 2008; Thompson et al. 2007).”
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ODD predicts risk taking in children.
“Our findings support previous research that ODD predicts risk taking (Garzon et al. 2008; Schwebel et al. 2002)”
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- Authors
- Garzon, D. L., Huang, H., & Todd, R. D.
- Affiliations
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Venue
- Archives of Psychiatric Nursing
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2008-10
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 288-296
- ISSN
- 0883-9417 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC2572107
- OpenAlex
- W1994417641
- Cited by
- 38
- References
- 37
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- FWCI
- 2.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Archives of Psychiatric Nursing (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Washington University in St. Louis
- National Institutes of Health
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH017104, T32 MH17104)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, unintentional injuries, preschool children, disruptive behavior disorders, emergency department visits, child behavior
- MeSH terms
- Accidents, Analysis of Variance, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Child Behavior, Child, Preschool, Emergency Service, Hospital, Female, Hospitals, Pediatric, Hospitals, Teaching, Hospitals, Urban, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Risk Factors, Risk-Taking, Socioeconomic Factors, Wounds and Injuries, Midwestern United States, Logistic Models, Case-Control Studies, Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders
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