title: A longitudinal study of risk and protective factors associated with successful transition to secondary school in youth with ADHD: prospective cohort study protocol.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has a significant impact on child and adolescent development, especially in relation to school functioning and academic outcomes. Despite the transition to high school being a potentially critical period for children with ADHD, most research in this period has focused on academic outcomes. This study aims to extend previous research by describing academic, school engagement, behaviour and social-emotional outcomes for young people with ADHD in the first and third years of high school and to identify risk and protective factors predictive of differing outcomes across these four domains.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Moving Up study is a longitudinal, prospective cohort study of children with ADHD as they transition and adjust to high school (age 12-15 years). Data are collected through direct assessment and child, parent and teacher surveys. The primary outcome is academic achievement, obtained by linking to standardised test results. Secondary outcomes include measures of behaviour, ADHD symptoms, school engagement (attitudes and attendance), and social and emotional functioning, including depressive symptoms. The mean performance of the study cohort on each outcome measure will be compared to the population mean for same aged children, using t-tests. Risk and protective factors to be examined using multiple regression include a child, family and school factors know to impact academic and school functioning.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Moving up study is the first Australian study prospectively designed to measure a broad range of student outcomes for children with ADHD during the high school transition period. Examining both current (cross sectional) and earlier childhood (longitudinal) factors gives us the potential to learn more about risk and protective factors associated with school functioning in young people with ADHD. The richness and depth of this information could lead to more targeted and effective interventions that may alter academic and wellbeing trajectories for young people at risk of poor outcomes. The study is approved by The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee (33206). Findings will be disseminated through peer-reviewed journals and conference presentations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. nardia.zendarski@mcri.edu.au.|Community Health Services Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. nardia.zendarski@mcri.edu.au.|Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children's Hospital, 5th floor Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. nardia.zendarski@mcri.edu.au.
authors.forename: Nardia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Zendarski
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. emma.sciberras@deakin.edu.au.|Community Health Services Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. emma.sciberras@deakin.edu.au.|Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children's Hospital, 5th floor Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. emma.sciberras@deakin.edu.au.|School of Psychology, Deakin University, Burwood, 3125, VIC, Australia. emma.sciberras@deakin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Emma
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sciberras
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. fiona.mensah@mcri.edu.au.|Community Health Services Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. fiona.mensah@mcri.edu.au.|Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children's Hospital, 5th floor Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. fiona.mensah@mcri.edu.au.
authors.forename: Fiona
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mensah
authors.affiliation: Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. harriet.hiscock@rch.org.au.|Community Health Services Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, The Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. harriet.hiscock@rch.org.au.|Centre for Community Child Health, The Royal Children's Hospital, 5th floor Flemington Rd, Parkville, 3052, VIC, Australia. harriet.hiscock@rch.org.au.
authors.forename: Harriet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hiscock
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D001315:Australia; D002648:Child; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D065840:Protective Factors; D012307:Risk Factors; D012574:Schools; D012917:Social Adjustment
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