title: Parents of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: psychological and attentional impairment.
abstract: Biological parents of ADHD children were compared with parents of nonclinical children on measures of psychological impairment and attentional performance. Parents of children with severe ADHD demonstrated greater impairment in social and psychological functioning. However, no significant differences were found on laboratory measures of sustained attention, memory, cognitive flexibility, encoding, or impulsivity. The possibility that parental adjustment would be more usefully assessed by measures of current adaptive functioning than by means of laboratory tests is discussed.
authors.affiliation: U Massachusetts Medical Ctr.
authors.forename: Kevin R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Russell A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Barkley
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales