Socioeconomic disparities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Sweden : An intersectional ecological niches analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (IEN-AIHDA)
Hornborg, Christoffer LU ; Axrud, Rebecca LU ; Vicente, Raquel Pérez LU and Merlo, Juan LU
(2023)
In PLoS ONE
18(11 November).
- Abstract
We aimed (i) to gain a better understanding of the demographic and socioeconomical distribution of ADHD risk in Sweden; and (ii) to contribute to the critical discussion on medicalization, i.e., the tendency to define and treat behavioural and social problems as medical entities. For this purpose, we analysed the risk of suffering from ADHD in the whole Swedish population aged between 5 and 60 years, across 96 different strata defined by combining categories of gender, age, income, and country of birth. The stratified analysis evidenced considerable risk heterogeneity, with prevalence values ranging from 0.03% in high income immigrant women aged 50-59, to 6.18% in middle income immigrant boys aged 10-14. Our study questions the... (More)
We aimed (i) to gain a better understanding of the demographic and socioeconomical distribution of ADHD risk in Sweden; and (ii) to contribute to the critical discussion on medicalization, i.e., the tendency to define and treat behavioural and social problems as medical entities. For this purpose, we analysed the risk of suffering from ADHD in the whole Swedish population aged between 5 and 60 years, across 96 different strata defined by combining categories of gender, age, income, and country of birth. The stratified analysis evidenced considerable risk heterogeneity, with prevalence values ranging from 0.03% in high income immigrant women aged 50-59, to 6.18% in middle income immigrant boys aged 10-14. Our study questions the established idea that behavioural difficulties conceptualized as ADHD should be primarily perceived as a neurological abnormality. Rather, our findings suggest that there is a strong sociological component behind how some individuals become impaired and subject to medicalization.
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- Hornborg, Christoffer
LU
; Axrud, Rebecca
LU
; Vicente, Raquel Pérez
LU
and Merlo, Juan
LU
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- publishing date
- 2023-11
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- published
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- PLoS ONE
- volume
- 18
- issue
- 11 November
- article number
- e0294741
- publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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- pmid:37983221
- scopus:85177754667
- ISSN
- 1932-6203
- DOI
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0294741
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- English
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title = {{Socioeconomic disparities in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Sweden : An intersectional ecological niches analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (IEN-AIHDA)}},
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