Less than one-third of children diagnosed with ADHD receive standardized treatment, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder care week is launched, emphasizing “diagnosis and treatment access”

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Today, the 4th Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Care Week and Adolescent Mental Health Diamond Project were officially launched. The theme of this year’s Care Week is “Promoting the Integration of Medicine and Education, Focusing on Changing the Future”, which aims to further improve the awareness of ADHD in the whole society, promote the deep integration of medicine and education, and promote the portable diagnosis and treatment of ADHD children.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), commonly known as ADHD, is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is prone to occur in childhood. Children and adolescents with ADHD are mainly manifested by age-disproportionate attention span, reduced attention span, hyperactivity and emotional impulsivity regardless of occasion, and accompanied by cognitive impairment and learning difficulties. At present, about 23 million children and adolescents in China are suffering from ADHD. However, due to the lack of awareness of the disease, the consultation rate of ADHD children in China is less than 10%, and only less than one-third of the diagnosed patients receive standardized treatment.

In order to actively respond to the “Healthy Children Action Improvement Plan (2021-2025)” to “promote children’s mental health, strengthen social publicity for health promotion, and create a mental health that starts from children” The core goal of “social atmosphere”, the 4th ADHD Care Week will build a multi-integrated environment and network system by linking various social forces such as 12355 youth service desks and youth palaces in many places across the country. Open up one-stop access to green channels, strengthen public awareness of diseases and scientific and standardized diagnosis and treatment awareness, and bring multi-channel disease consultation and portable diagnosis and treatment services to ADHD children.

This ADHD Care Week will continue to focus on “schools”, and cooperate with the spring and autumn school seasons to deepen the development of the innovative model of “medical education integration”. While encouraging doctors in the field of ADHD to come to the campus to conduct special science lectures to help teachers and parents understand the disease Promote the further optimization and implementation of the medical-education integration model.

“Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder is one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders among children in my country, which has a negative impact on children’s academic performance, self-esteem and interpersonal communication. If it can be detected early and accepted Professional treatment, ADHD can be treated.In life, teachers and parents spend more time with their children, and they have the opportunity to discover children’s psychological or behavioral abnormalities at the first time, which are the key guardians of children’s health. Therefore, It is of great significance to enhance the awareness of ADHD among school teachers and parents to improve the scientific diagnosis and treatment of children.” Professor Cao Qingjiu, director of the Children’s Ward of Peking University Sixth Hospital, said in the theme discussion session of the kick-off meeting.

This project is supported by Yang Sen China and co-sponsored by China Youth Development Foundation and China Youth Publishing House. Guo Meijian, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the China Youth Development Foundation, introduced that in recent years, nearly 500 campus public welfare activities have been carried out in more than 30 cities across the country, with more than 3,000 teachers directly participating, covering more than 100,000 parents. Children and adolescents with ADHD have provided great help. “In the future, we will continue to work with partners and caring people to provide more comprehensive support to promote the mental health development of children and adolescents.”

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