Attention-deficit/hyperactivity Disorder in Children. A Statistical Approach

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common behavioural disorders in school age children, with a high increase of its prevalence rate in the last decade. ADHD has much comorbidity affecting the child's life in every domain of their quotidian life with a negative influence in the prognosis of this condition. Psychomotor deficits are responsible for many of the learning disabilities of these children. A sample was submitted to a Psychomotor Battery, in order to characterize the population of children with the diagnosis of ADHD, followed at the Centro Hospitalar Cova da Beira (Portugal), under psychomotor therapy. To the data, collected at baseline and at the end of the intervention, we applied a nonparametric testand graphical techniquesbased on limits of (dis) agreement. The main result shows that the psychomotor profile has a statistical significant improvement after psychomotor therapy.