ADHD treatment with drugs

Overview

Influence: ADHD treatment with drugs
Domain: Classroom
Sub-Domain: Classroom management
Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have a small 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: 476
Number of students: 45,195
Number of effects: 1,875
Weighted mean effect size: 0.30
Robustness index: 4

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title	Author	First Author's Country	Article Name	Year Published	Variable	Number of Studies	Number of Students	Number of Effects	Effect Size
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology	Ottenbacher & Cooper	USA	Drug treatment of hyperactivity in children	1983	Stimulant medication on achievement	61	1,972	61	0.47
Journal of Learning Disabilities	Kavale	USA	The efficacy of stimulant drug treatment for hyperactivity: a meta-analysis	1982	Stimulant drug treatment for hyperactivity	135	5,300	984	0.58
Journal of General Psychology	Thurber & Walker	USA	Medication and hyperactivity: a meta-analysis	1983	Stimulant medication on achievement	20	1,219	20	0.23
Behavioral Disorders	Kavale & Nye	USA	The effectiveness of drug treatment for severe behavior disorders: A meta-analysis	1984	Drug treatment	70	0	401	0.30
Dissertation	Crenshaw	USA	Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and eh efficacy of stimulant medication: a meta-analysis	1997	Drugs treatment (ADHD) on cognitive outcomes	36	23,681	36	0.29
Review of Educational Research	Purdie, Hattie, & Carroll	Australia	A review of the research on interventions for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: What works best?	2002	Drugs treatment (ADHD) on cognitive outcomes	74	2,188	266	0.28
Dissertation	Snead	USA	A meta-analysis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder interventions: an empirical road to pragmatic solutions	2005	Interventions to reduce effects of ADHD	8	815	8	0.18
Clinical Psychology Review	Van Der Oord, Prins, Oosterlaan, & Emmelkamp	Netherlands	Efficacy of methylphenidate, psychosocial treatments and their combination in school-aged children with ADHD: a meta-analysis.	2008	ADHD drugs on achievement	7	0	7	0.19
Dissertation	Fowler	USA	The effect of ADHD on academic achievement: A meta-analytic review	2015	ADHD vs. non ADHD	31	8,246	58	-0.90
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry	Kortekaas-Rijlaarsdam, Luman, Sonuga-Barke, & Oosterlaan	Netherlands	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						476	45,195	1,875	0.17