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| Title |
Do stimulant medications improve educational and behavioral outcomes for children with ADHD?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Journal of Health Economics, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2014.05.002 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Janet Currie, Mark Stabile, Lauren Jones |
| Abstract |
We examine the effects of a policy change in the province of Quebec, Canada which greatly expanded insurance coverage for prescription medications. We show that the change was associated with a sharp increase in the use of stimulant medications commonly prescribed for ADHD in Quebec relative to the rest of Canada. We ask whether this increase in medication use was associated with improvements in emotional functioning or academic outcomes among children with ADHD. We find little evidence of improvement in either the medium or the long run. Our results are silent on the effects on optimal use of medication for ADHD, but suggest that expanding medication in a community setting had little positive benefit and may have had harmful effects given the average way these drugs are used in the community. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 115 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 18 | 16% |
| Canada | 10 | 9% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 8% |
| Spain | 6 | 5% |
| Australia | 4 | 3% |
| Saudi Arabia | 4 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2% |
| Colombia | 2 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 5% |
| Unknown | 52 | 45% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 90 | 78% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 15 | 13% |
| Scientists | 8 | 7% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 224 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | <1% |
| Chile | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 213 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 37 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 33 | 15% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 32 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 12% |
| Researcher | 26 | 12% |
| Other | 28 | 13% |
| Unknown | 41 | 18% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 50 | 22% |
| Social Sciences | 33 | 15% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 26 | 12% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 22 | 10% |
| Neuroscience | 12 | 5% |
| Other | 29 | 13% |
| Unknown | 52 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 175. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 January 2024.
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