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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Workers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) do 22 days less work per year than those without the disorder.
As part of the World Mental Health Survey Initiative, the World Health Organization (WHO) screened more than 7,000 employed and self-employed workers in 10 countries. They also asked the workers about their work performance in the last month. WHO found an average of 3.5 percent of workers had ADHD, and these workers spent 22.1 less days working per year than other workers.
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ADHD was found to be more prevalent in men and workers in developed countries than developing ones. In addition, the only workers who received treatment for ADHD were found in the Netherlands and the United States.
Researchers suggested that screening and treatment for ADHD in the workplace might be a wise move. It might be cost-effective from the employer perspective to implement workplace screening programs and provide treatment for workers with ADHD, researchers wrote. The obvious next step from a public health perspective, given these findings, is to evaluate the extent to which best-practices outreach and treatment would result in improvement in functioning that might have a positive return-on-investment for employers.
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SOURCE: Occupational and Environmental Medicine, published online May 20, 2008
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