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Relationship between symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and speech-language-hearing aspects

Relação entre sintomas de transtorno de déficit de atenção/hiperatividade e aspectos fonoaudiológicos

Nárli Machado-Nascimento; Arthur Melo e Kümmer; Stela Maris Aguiar Lemos

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Abstract

Purpose:  to investigate the association of symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity with language development and cognitive, environmental, socioeconomic, and quality of life aspects in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.

Methods:  an observational, analytical, cross-sectional study with a sex-stratified sample of 38 children 7 to 12 years old, diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The assessments approached sociodemographic and environmental aspects, the quality of life, language comprehension, rapid automatic naming, phonological working memory, vocabulary, reading and writing processes and metalinguistic skills. Descriptive and bivariate analyses were conducted at the 5% significance level.

Results:  there was a statistically significant association between the profile of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and behavioral aspects. There was no significant association of the forms of manifestation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder with the quality of life, oral language, written language and phonological processing skills.

Conclusion:  children with hyperactive profiles had a better performance, whereas children with combined and predominantly inattentive profiles had similar performances. Although no statistically significant associations were found between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and most of the variables analyzed in this research, it contributes to the discussion of the speech-language-hearing diagnosis.

Keywords

Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder; Language; Family; Quality of Life

Resumo

Objetivo:  investigar a associação de sintomas de desatenção e hiperatividade com o desenvolvimento de linguagem, aspectos cognitivos, ambientais, socioeconômicos e de qualidade de vida, em crianças com Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade.

Métodos:  estudo observacional, analítico, transversal, com amostra estratificada por sexo e composta por 38 crianças de sete a doze anos de idade, com diagnóstico de Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade. Foram avaliados aspectos sociodemográficos e ambientais, qualidade de vida, compreensão da linguagem, nomeação automática rápida, memória de trabalho fonológica, vocabulário, processos de leitura, escrita e habilidades metalinguísticas. Foram realizadas análises descritiva e bivariada, adotando nível de significância de 5%.

Resultados:  houve associação com significância estatística entre perfil do Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade e aspectos comportamentais. Não houve associação significante das formas de apresentação do Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade com qualidade de vida, linguagem oral, linguagem escrita e habilidades de processamento fonológico.

Conclusão:  verificou-se melhor desempenho das crianças com perfil hiperativo e desempenho semelhante entre os perfis combinado e predominantemente desatento. Embora não tenham sido encontradas associações estatisticamente significantes entre Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção e Hiperatividade e a maioria das variáveis analisadas nesta pesquisa, ela contribui para a discussão do diagnóstico fonoaudiológico.

Palavras-chave

Fonoaudiologia; Transtorno do Déficit de Atenção com Hiperatividade; Linguagem; Família; Qualidade de Vida

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Submitted date:
11/02/2020

Accepted date:
06/11/2020

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