Developmental Risks of Inattentive Behavior

Abstract

The developmental functioning, social, and environmental backgrounds of a community-based, epidemiological sample of 7-year-old children with pure inattentive behavior (I-subtype, n=31, 1.3% of sample) were compared to that of children with pure overactive behavior (HI subtype, n=31) ADHD-Combined type (n=31) and a control group at the Maudsley Hospital, London, UK.

Keywords

• inattentive behavior
• environmental backgrounds
• inattentiveness