ADHD affects job prospects

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ADHD brings more risk of being unemployed or on a low income, Swedish researchers found from tracking 1.2 million high school graduates. On average, those with ADHD earned 17 per cent less than people without the condition. Developmental problems, intellectual disability and poor school results could partly explain these links, so the authors recommend taking disability and education into account when designing programmes to boost job prospects in ADHD.

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Organisation/s: Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Hospital Clinic de Barcelona (Spain), Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Indiana University, Shire Sweden AB, a Takeda Company (Sweden), Global Medical Affairs, Shire International GmbH, a Takeda Company (Switzerland), Orebro University (Sweden)

Funder: This study received funding from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet, award: 2018-02599), and through a grant from Shire International GmbH, a member of Takeda group of companies, Zug, Switzerland. Dr. Bulik acknowledges funding from the Swedish Research Council (award: 538-2013-8864). Although the sponsor (Shire) was involved in the design, collection, analysis, interpretation of the data, and writing of the report, the content of this manuscript, the ultimate interpretation, and the decision to submit it for publication in PlosOne was made by the authors independently.

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