Ballard Rachel, Sadhu Julie
Pediatr Ann. 2025 Jan;54(1):e34-e39. doi: 10.3928/19382359-20241007-04. Epub 2025 Jan 1.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a chronic neurodevelopmental disorder that often presents in early childhood and, for most people, persists into adulthood. The symptom presentation and impact on functioning often evolve over time as children reach the developmental stages of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Children with ADHD are at risk of comorbid disorders, as well as potential cumulative adverse outcomes, if their ADHD is not adequately or appropriately treated in a timely manner. Pediatricians play a unique and critical role in educating, guiding, treating, and empowering children with ADHD and their families across the pediatric lifespan. Their role extends beyond pharmacological treatment of ADHD to ensuring favorable outcomes in social, academic, emotional, and behavioral functioning by providing anticipatory guidance and facilitating conversations that promote understanding of their child's condition. .
注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）是一种慢性神经发育障碍，通常在幼儿期出现，对大多数人来说，会持续到成年期。随着儿童进入童年、青少年和成年的发育阶段，症状表现及其对功能的影响通常会随时间而演变。如果ADHD患儿未得到及时充分或恰当的治疗，他们有患共病的风险，以及潜在的累积不良后果。儿科医生在整个儿科诊疗过程中，在教育、指导、治疗患有ADHD的儿童及其家庭并赋予他们力量方面发挥着独特而关键的作用。他们的作用不仅限于ADHD的药物治疗，还包括通过提供预期指导和促进对话以增进对孩子病情的了解，确保孩子在社交、学业、情感和行为功能方面取得良好结果。
