title: A pilot study on religiousness/spirituality and ADHD.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The phenomena of religiousness and spirituality bear on issues of personal behavioral control and interpersonal relationships. Behavioral control and social relationships can be affected by attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The object ofthis pilot study was to explore possible connections between religiousness/spirituality and the clinical diagnosis ADHD. A group of adolescent psychiatric outpatients (n=117) completed the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality. Clinical diagnosis was obtained from the clinic chart.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Logistic regression modeling revealed no significant relation between the various dimensions of religiousness/spirituality and diagnosis of ADHD.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings presented here are in need of replication but could add to clinical understanding of ADHD.
authors.affiliation: Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. red@geri.duke.edu
authors.forename: Rachel E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Dew
authors.forename: Stephanie S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Daniel
authors.forename: Harold G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Koenig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002835:Christianity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D029181:Spirituality