Mackenzie Genevieve B, Wonders Elif
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Literacy Laboratory, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada.
The Connections Laboratory, Department of Education and Counselling Psychology, McGill University Montreal, QC, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2016 May 31;7:794. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00794. eCollection 2016.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with lower than average intelligence quotient (IQ) scores. However, research done on this disorder often excludes participants based on lower than average IQ's (i.e., between 70 and 85). The purpose of this paper is to alert researchers to the consequences of excluding participants based on IQ's within this range and to highlight the importance of providing a clear rationale when choosing to exclude participants based on IQ. Next, we offer recommendations for researching ADHD and their relative benefits and drawbacks of these approaches. Overall this paper emphasizes that including participants who have lower than average IQ in research on ADHD may promote a more realistic understanding of the condition and in turn improve our ability to treat it.
注意力缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)与低于平均水平的智商(IQ)分数相关。然而,针对这种疾病的研究通常会基于低于平均水平的智商(即70至85之间)排除参与者。本文的目的是提醒研究人员注意基于该智商范围内排除参与者的后果,并强调在选择基于智商排除参与者时提供明确理由的重要性。接下来,我们针对ADHD研究提供建议以及这些方法的相对优缺点。总体而言,本文强调在ADHD研究中纳入智商低于平均水平的参与者可能会促进对该病症更现实的理解,进而提高我们治疗它的能力。