"The six-question screening instrument that was endorsed by the World Health Organization was devised by doctors with a very long history in ADHD research," he says. Goodman says simple screening tests can be helpful to identify who those undiagnosed people might be, and encourage them to see a specialist.Īlan Schwarz, the author of the book ADHD Nation and a former investigative reporter for The New York Times, has investigated the ties between pharmaceutical companies and doctors. "If you're disorganized, you're confused, you're tardy, you're not following through, you're making a lot of errors, your spouse or partner is going to grow increasingly frustrated," Goodman says.
"Children with ADHD grow up into adults with ADHD," he says, citing longitudinal studies by a team in Canada that suggested more than half of children with ADHD continued to experience symptoms as adults. adults with undiagnosed ADHD.īut that may not be the case, and even if it is, some ADHD researchers say the six-question screening test is not necessarily the simple diagnostic solution its proponents hope it will be.īut, Goodman says, he believes there is evidence of a significant population of adults whose lives are being disrupted by ADHD, and who remain undiagnosed. We reported on it, including one implication of the study's findings: that there could be a significant population of U.S. Which is why many people were excited when earlier this year a World Health Organization advisory group endorsed a six-question screening test that a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reported could reliably identify adults with ADHD.Ī lot of people were intrigued by the seeming simplicity of the screening. Discerning the difference between people who have a problem and those who are just distracted requires real expertise. The symptoms of the disorder, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, or DSM, have changed multiple times.Įven if you know what to look for, many of the symptoms are pretty general, including things like trouble focusing and a tendency to interrupt people. Hemant Mehta/IndiaPicture RF/Getty Imagesĭiagnosing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder can be difficult.
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