标题：Diagnosis of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder among patients with Substance Use Disorder and Association with Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics: A Retrospective Study
出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：objective:Substance use disorders (SUD) are chronic, relapsing disorders in which compulsive behaviors persist despite severe negative consequences. SUD is frequent among patients with ADHD and ADHD is frequent among patients with SUD. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of ADHD among patients with substance abuse/dependence according to DSM-IV TR retrospectively, and to demonstrate whether the diagnosis of ADHD is associated with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of these patients method:We analyzed the medical records of 485 patients. All participants were diagnosed as having alcohol or substance abuse/dependence.Socio-demographic and data regarding clinical characteristics were derived from patient records. results: Of the included 395 participants, 37 (9.4%) were female and 358 (90.6%) were male. The mean age was 31.53±10.44 years. Comorbid ADHD was diagnosed among 82 (20.8%) of all participants. The mean age in ADHD group was significantly lower than that of the group without ADHD (27.10± [7.87] versus 32.69± [10.73], p
