การศึกษาเชิงวิเคราะห์ตามขวางของปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อโรคสมาธิสั้นในเด็กวัยเรียนผู้รับบริการแผนกผู้ป่วยนอกคลินิกจิตเวชเด็ก โรงพยาบาลสิชล

Objectives: To study factors associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders in school aged children of Sichon Hospital.

Method: The study was the cross-sectional analytic study conducted by the questionnaires as Self administered questionnaire. The participants of this research are 6-12 years of age, who were diagnosed ADHD and used services in Sichon Hospital .Other groups were children whose ages are between 6-12 years. These children used service in Sichon Hospital.Sample groups were 87 people by Simple Random sampling. The questionnaires were analyzed by using the frequency and finding the relationship of factors associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders in school aged by using the statistic of Chi-square univariate analysis odds ratio in the level of statistical signficance as p-value < 0.05.

Results: The factors associated with ADHD in school aged children of Sichon hospital were male having risk more 2.7 times than female. Children who were punished by teachers had risk 1.8 times more than the ones who have never been punished by teachers. Children who spent more than two hours a day watching TV had 2.2 times more risk than the ones who spent less than two hours a day. Fathers who graduated lower than secondary school had 2.6 times more risk than the ones who did higher than secondary school. Fathers who used to use drugs had 1.7 times more risks than the ones who have never done.

Conclusion: The first factor is sex. The second factor is children who are punished by teacher. The third factor is children who watched TV more than two hours. The fourth factor is children whose fathers graduated lower than secondary school. The fifth factor is children whose fathers used to have drug addicted.