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How interactions between ADHD and schools affect educational achievement: a family-based genetically sensitive study

Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 2022-10, Vol.63 (10), p.1174 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2022 The Authors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. ;info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess ;ISSN: 0021-9630 ;ISSN: 1469-7610 ;EISSN: 1469-7610 ;DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13656 ;PMID: 35789088

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  • Title:
    How interactions between ADHD and schools affect educational achievement: a family-based genetically sensitive study
  • Author: Cheesman, Rosa ; Eilertsen, Espen M ; Ayorech, Ziada ; Borgen, Nicolai T ; Andreassen, Ole A ; Larsson, Henrik ; Zachrisson, Henrik ; Torvik, Fartein A ; Ystrom, Eivind
  • Subjects: Academic Success ; ADHD ; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - diagnosis ; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - epidemiology ; Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity - genetics ; Cohort Studies ; Educational Status ; gene-environment interaction ; genetics ; Humans ; Medicin och hälsovetenskap ; school ; school performance ; Schools
  • Is Part Of: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, 2022-10, Vol.63 (10), p.1174
  • Description: Children with ADHD tend to achieve less than their peers in school. It is unknown whether schools moderate this association. Nonrandom selection of children into schools related to variations in their ADHD risk poses a methodological problem. We linked data on ADHD symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity and parent-child ADHD polygenic scores (PGS) from the Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study (MoBa) to achievement in standardised tests and school identifiers. We estimated interactions of schools with individual differences between students in inattention, hyperactivity, and ADHD-PGS using multilevel models with random slopes for ADHD effects on achievement over schools. In our PGS analyses, we adjust for parental selection of schools by adjusting for parental ADHD-PGS (a within-family PGS design). We then tested whether five school sociodemographic measures explained any interactions. Analysis of up to 23,598 students attending 2,579 schools revealed interactions between school and ADHD effects on achievement. The variability between schools in the effects of inattention, hyperactivity and within-family ADHD-PGS on achievement was 0.08, 0.07 and 0.05 SDs, respectively. For example, the average effect of inattention on achievement was β = -0.23 (SE = 0.009), but in 2.5% of schools with the weakest effects, the value was -0.07 or less. ADHD has a weaker effect on achievement in higher-performing schools. Schools make more of a difference to the achievements of students with higher levels of ADHD, explaining over four times as much variance in achievement for those with high versus average inattention symptoms. School sociodemographic measures could not explain the ADHD-by-school interactions. Although ADHD symptoms and genetic risk tend to hinder achievement, schools where their effects are weaker do exist. Differences between schools in support for children with ADHD should be evened out.
  • Publisher: England
  • Language: English;Norwegian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0021-9630
    ISSN: 1469-7610
    EISSN: 1469-7610
    DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.13656
    PMID: 35789088
  • Source: SWEPUB Freely available online
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