Association Between Diagnosed ADHD & Selected Characteristics Among Children Aged 4 To 17 Years: United States, 2011–2013

In this report released in June 2015, researchers with the National Center for Health Statistics, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed data from the 2011–2013 National Health Insurance Survey. The analysis included responses from parents about their children’s health status for 29,968 children between the ages of 4 and 17. The researchers found that in 2013, about 9.5% of children in the United States between ages 4 and 17 had been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD . . .