Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada.
Department of Psychology, Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 Mar 7;8:119. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00119. eCollection 2014.
Parental reports of attention problems and clinical symptomatology of ADHD among children with fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) were assessed in relation to performance on standardized subtests of attentional control/shifting and selective attention from the Test of Everyday Attention for Children (TEA-Ch; Manly etal., 1998). The participants included 14 children with FASD with a mean chronological age (CA) of 11.7 years and a mean mental age (MA) of 9.7 years, and 14 typically developing (TD) children with no reported history of prenatal exposure to alcohol or attention problems with a mean CA of 8.4 years and a mean MA of 9.6 years. The children with FASD were rated by their caregivers as having clinically significant attention difficulties for their developmental age. The reported symptomatology for the majority of the children with FASD were consistent with a diagnosis of ADHD, combined type, and only one child had a score within the average range. These reports are consistent with the finding that the children with FASD demonstrated difficulties with attentional control/shifting, but inconsistent with the finding that they outperformed the TD children on a test assessing selective attention. These findings are considered within the context of the complexity in understanding attentional functioning among children with FASD and discrepancies across sources of information and components of attention.
评估了患有胎儿酒精谱系障碍（FASD）的儿童的父母报告的注意力问题和 ADHD 临床症状与注意力控制/转移和选择性注意力的标准化子测试的表现之间的关系，这些子测试来自儿童日常注意力测试（TEA-Ch；Manly 等人，1998 年）。参与者包括 14 名患有 FASD 的儿童，他们的平均年龄为 11.7 岁，平均智力年龄为 9.7 岁，以及 14 名无产前接触酒精史或注意力问题的典型发育儿童，他们的平均年龄为 8.4 岁，平均智力年龄为 9.6 岁。FASD 儿童的照顾者对其发育年龄的注意力困难程度进行了临床评估。大多数 FASD 儿童的报告症状与 ADHD 混合类型的诊断一致，只有一名儿童的得分在平均范围内。这些报告与 FASD 儿童表现出注意力控制/转移困难的发现一致，但与他们在评估选择性注意力的测试中表现优于典型发育儿童的发现不一致。这些发现是在理解 FASD 儿童注意力功能的复杂性以及信息来源和注意力成分之间的差异的背景下考虑的。
