مدى انتشار اضطراب الحركة الزائدة وتشتت الانتباه لدى الاطفال وعلاقته بتدني التحصيل الدراسي
Date
2010-01-19
Authors
آسيا حسين كبير
Asia Hussain Kabir
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Publisher
Al-Quds University
Abstract
The study was designed to identify the prevalence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD among the UNRWA schools children , and to recognized its types and to examine its relation to low academic achievement of the study simple sample. Moreover, it was designed to verify the differences of ADHD according to the demographic, social and economic factors of the
sample including: gender, academic achievement, classroom, place of residence, number of the
family, the placement in the family, parents education, parents job and the family monthly income.
The sample consisted of a simple random sample of 490 students from the fifth, sixth, eight and
ninth grades at the UNRWA schools in Gaza strip, in both elementary and preparatory levels, and
from both of sexes (283 males and 207 females). This study selected two categories of students: the
first one was composed of students that had succeeded in all their subjects, the second was
composed of students that whether had failed in Arabic or Mathematics, or both of them. The researcher used the following tools in this study: A list of demographic factors, and ADHD scale
according to the teachers' and parents' estimations, then the data were collected and analyzed by the
suitable statistic methods using SPSS program. The findings indicated that teachers’ and parents’
estimations about subtypes among failed students sample was as following: (ADHD-C):23.5% -
21.0%, (ADHD-I):35.1%-26.5%, (ADHD-H):26.1%-23.9% respectively. Estimation among
successful students sample was as following: (ADHD-C): 3.1% -1.8%, (ADHD-I): 8.1%-4.6%,
(ADHD-H): 4.9%-5-9% respectively. The prevalence of (ADHD-C) among male and female was 5
to 1 respectively, and that about quarter of the children had the (ADHD-C). and the prevalence of
(ADHD-I was 2 to 1 respectively. The prevalence of (ADHD-H) was more than 3 to 1 for male
and female respectively. The results revealed statistical significant differences, in all the ADHD
subtypes, according to sex, academic achievement, classroom, type of residence and number of
family members. These differences were for males, for groups of failed students, for the eighth and
ninth level grade, for students living in camps and for students living with big families. Moreover,
the results showed significant statistically differences in all ADHD dimensions and its total score
according to the factors of the parents-relatives relationship, parents’ education, parents’ job and
the factors of parents’ monthly income. Those differences were for a group of students whose
parents are cousins, for students whose parents were not educated or had a low level of education,
for students whose fathers were simple workers or unemployed, and whose mothers were
housewives, and for students whose families had low monthly incomes