Do Firstborn Children Have an Increased Risk of ADHD?

作者：Masana Marin Adela; Lopez Seco Fernando; Marti Serrano Susana; Acosta Garcia Silvia; Gaviria Gomez Milena; Ney Inti

来源：Journal of Attention Disorders, 2014, 18(7): 594-597.

DOI：10.1177/1087054712445066

• Attention deficit disorder
• ADHD
• epidemiology
• family risk factors
• firstborn children

Objective: Although previous reports have found no birth-order influence on ADHD risk, the authors hypothesize that being the firstborn is a risk factor for developing ADHD. Method: They selected all of the currently treated ADHD outpatients (n = 748) from our database. Families with adopted sons, nonnuclear families, and families with only one child and with sons (affected or unaffected) younger than 6 or older than 18 years were excluded. A total of 181 families with 213 ADHD sons met the inclusion criteria. We used all siblings without a clinical diagnosis of ADHD and who had no contact with our service as our unaffected controls (n = 173). Results: The bivariate analysis showed that ADHD was associated with birth order and that firstborn children had nearly twice the ADHD risk of children with other birth orders. Conclusion: birth order can be an ADHD risk factor in clinical samples.

• 出版日期2014-10
• 单位上海市精神卫生中心