Open Access<p>Association Between Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Risk of Burn Injury: A Propensity-Matched Cohort Study</p>
Author(s) -
JiaYin Yeh,
Tsai-Yu Hou,
WeiTing Tseng,
Vincent ChinHung Chen,
YaoHsu Yang,
Ting-Yu Kuo,
JunCheng Weng,
Charles Tzu-Chi Lee,
YiLung Chen,
Min-Jing Lee
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
neuropsychiatric disease and treatment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2021
pISSN - 1176-6328
DOI - 10.2147/ndt.s242153
Subject(s) - medicine , propensity score matching , cohort , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder , cohort study , association (psychology) , psychiatry , philosophy , epistemology
Literature suggests that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with a high risk of unintentional injury. However, few studies have focused on whether risk of burn injury is relatively high among patients with ADHD. The aim of this study was to investigate whether ADHD affects the risk of burn injury.