ADHD with and without anxiety in children: clinical, sociodemographic and neuropsychological characterization

Introduction: Disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with anxiety disorder (TA) has shown to have greater clinical complexity in comparison with ADHD without comorbidity. Within this investigation was considered to better understand the picture of ADHD and as such see the possible variability can come to shop with comorbidity, it was necessary to make a clinical, socio-demographic and perform their analysis with the results of neuropsychological characterization. Objective: To determine the clinical, sociodemographic and neuropsychological characterization of children diagnosed with ADHD with and without anxiety and identify significant differences between groups. Sample: 30 patients diagnosed with ADHD with anxiety, 29 ADHD without comorbidity and 33 controls. Material and methods: An new instrument (questionnaire) was designed to identify the sociodemographic data, medical history and an them was constructed, the results and analysis of neuropsychological characterization resumed. Results: There are significant differences in the results of the characterization of the two groups of cases, especially in the group generating comorbidity different factors compared to the ADHD group without anxiety that comes close to presenting risk factors associated with aging. Conclusions: The clinical, demographic and neuropsychological picture of the two groups has a different evolution of the disorder.