ADHD treatment with drugs

Overview

Influence: ADHD treatment with drugs
Domain: Classroom
Sub-Domain: Classroom management
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
Influence Definition: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder that generally causes attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. It affects about 5 to 7 percent of children when diagnosed according to the criteria established by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Students diagnosed with ADHD often exhibit other, related learning disorders, such as reading disorders or deficits in mathematics. Common drugs used to treat this are Adderall and Ritalin that often take time to determine the appropriate strain and dosage.

Evidence

Number of meta-analyses: 10
Number of studies: 440
Number of students: 45,338
Number of effects: 776
Weighted mean effect size: 0.33
Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology	Ottenbacher & Cooper	Drug treatment of hyperactivity in children	1983	Stimulant medication on achievement	61	1,972	12	0.47
Journal of Learning Disabilities	Kavale	The efficacy of stimulant drug treatment for hyperactivity: a meta-analysis	1982	Stimulant drug treatment for hyperactivity	135	5,300	271	0.49
Journal of General Psychology	Thurber & Walker	Medication and hyperactivity: a meta-analysis	1983	Stimulant medication on achievement	20	1,219	20	0.23
Dissertation	Fowler	The effect of ADHD on academic achievement: A meta-analytic review	2015	ADHD vs. non ADHD	31	8,246	58	-0.90
Behavioral Disorders	Kavale & Nye	The effectiveness of drug treatment for severe behavior disorders: A meta-analysis	1984	Drug treatment	70	NA	64	0.63
Dissertation	Crenshaw	Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and eh efficacy of stimulant medication: a meta-analysis	1997	Drugs treatment (ADHD) on cognitive outcomes	36	23,680	36	0.29
Review of Educational Research	Purdie, Hattie, & Carroll	A review of the research on interventions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: What works best?	2002	Drugs treatment (ADHD) on cognitive outcomes	38	2,188	266	0.28
Dissertation	Snead	A meta-analysis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder interventions: an empirical road to pragmatic solutions	2005	Interventions to reduce effects of ADHD	8	959	8	0.30
Clinical Psychology Review	Van Der Oord, Prins, Oosterlaan, & Emmelkamp	Efficacy of methylphenidate, psychosocial treatments and their combination in school-aged children with ADHD: a meta-analysis.	2008	ADHD drugs on achievement	7	NA	7	0.19
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Kortekaas-Rijlaarsdam, Luman, Sonuga-Barke, & Oosterlaan	Does methylphenidate improve academic performance? A systematic review and meta-analysis. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	2019	Methylphenidate on ADHD	34	1,774	34	0.09
TOTAL/AVERAGE						440	45,338	776	0.21