Model development for prediction of methylphenidate use compared with attention deficit hyperactive disorder accessibility rate in Thailand

บทคัดย่อ

Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) is a common child psychiatric disorder that persists to adolescence and adulthood. ADHD often has comorbid oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder in addition to having developmental and social problems. Psychostimulant is one factor that can improve ADHD symptoms and improve long term outcome. So, it is important for healthcare service to prepare enough psychostimulant medication to provide effective ADHD treatment. Model development to predict methylphenidate use compare with ADHD accessibility rate will be helpful to predict enough medication to provide it to ADHD patient, Counting
number of ADHD patient has correlated with Amount of methylphenidate short acting use in Thailand.