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Military performance of men with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder : findings from a follow-up study in the Northern Finland birth cohort 1986 |
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| Author: | Halt, Anu-Helmi1,2; Uusitalo, Jouni1; Niemi, Pekka1; |
| Organizations: |
1Research Unit of Clinical Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Oulu University Hospital, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 2Department of Psychiatry, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland 3Department of Child Psychiatry, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland |
| Format: | article |
| Version: | accepted version |
| Access: | open |
| Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.4 MB) |
| Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe20231004138674 |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Informa,
2023
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| Publish Date: | 2023-10-04 |
| Description: |
AbstractPurpose: The aim of this study was to assess the military performance of men with adolescent attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and men with childhood ADHD (in remission during adolescence) as compared with controls without ADHD. Methods: The study employs the general population-based Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (NFBC1986) together with data received from the Finnish Defence Forces (FDF). A total of 38 men with childhood ADHD and 67 with adolescent ADHD were compared with 160 controls. Results: The men with adolescent ADHD were more often deemed unfit for military service, had more military health care visits, more often committed at least one offence during service, received poorer evaluations for team leadership skills and indulged in more alcohol consumption and smoking than the controls, while those with childhood ADHD did not differ from the controls in their military fitness, but received poorer evaluations for team leadership skills and smoked more than did the controls. Conclusions: The conscripts with adolescent ADHD performed worse on many military parameters, but the men with ADHD in remission did not seem to suffer from such negative effects on military performance. The childhood ADHD group in particular was nevertheless somewhat limited in size, which might have led to a Type II error. see all
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| Series: |
Nordic journal of psychiatry |
| ISSN: | 0803-9488 |
| ISSN-E: | 1502-4725 |
| ISSN-L: | 0803-9488 |
| Volume: | 77 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 96 - 101 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08039488.2022.2131906 |
| OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1080/08039488.2022.2131906 |
| Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
| Field of Science: |
3124 Neurology and psychiatry |
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| Funding: |
This work was supported by the Terttu Foundation, Oulu University Hospital to AHH and TH. The study was also supported by the Center for Military Medicine to TH. This research did not receive any other specific grants from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. |
| Copyright information: |
This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. Anu-Helmi Halt, Jouni Uusitalo, Pekka Niemi, Jari Koskela & Tuula Hurtig (2023) Military performance of men with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: findings from a follow-up study in the Northern Finland birth cohort 1986, Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 77:1, 96-101, DOI: 10.1080/08039488.2022.2131906. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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