Manifest anxiety and quality of life in schoolchildren with ADHD during confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Keywords:
Schoolchildren, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Manifest Anxiety, Quality of LifeAbstract
The pandemic generated by COVID-19 forced the governments of all countries to enter into quarantine, modifying the daily coexistence among family members.
Objective: To evaluate manifest anxiety and quality of life in schoolchildren with ADHD during confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Methods: Comparative, observational, non-experimental cross-sectional study of 105 schoolchildren with ADHD and 80 in the Control Group evaluated with the “Manifest Anxiety in Children Scale-Revised (CMAS-R)”. And the quality of life with the questionnaire (AUQUEI). The school children were diagnosed with ADHD in the Neurosciences Laboratory of the National Rehabilitation Institute, and treated with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to control their behavioral symptoms, before the Pandemic and were invited through the informed consent of their parents to participate in this research.
Results. The CMAS-R questionnaire showed significant differences in its five dimensions between the groups with different ADHD subtypes and the control group. And the AUQUEI questionnaire showed differences in 4 of its 5 dimensions between schoolchildren with and control group 3 of 5 factors between the combined and hyperactive impulsive subtypes and control group and between the combined subtype and the hyperactive impulsive subtype. There were correlations between: Leisure, Physiological Anxiety, Total Quality of Life and Restlessness/Hypersensitivity; as well as between Separation, Achievement and Total Anxiety in the ADHD-Combined subtype and Control Group.
Conclusions. An increase in anxiety indicators and a decrease in their quality of life were observed in schoolchildren with ADHD.
