Sex differences in a sample of Egyptian adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Hisham Ramy; Heba F Hendawy; Mona M. El Sheikh; Zeinab Bishry; Eman Shorub; Marwa El-Missiry
- Source
- Middle East Current Psychiatry. 25:183-188
- Subject
- Cross-sectional study
business.industry
05 social sciences
Sample (statistics)
medicine.disease
behavioral disciplines and activities
03 medical and health sciences
Psychiatry and Mental health
0302 clinical medicine
Neuropsychiatric disorder
mental disorders
medicine
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
050104 developmental & child psychology
Clinical psychology
- Language
- ISSN
- 2090-5408
BackgroundAttention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a common neuropsychiatric disorder, yet studies comparing adolescent boys and girls with ADHD showed inconsistent findings.ObjectivesTo examine the sex differences with respect to sociodemographic and clinical characteristics in a sample o