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Published in final edited form as: Atten Defic Hyperact Disord. 2016 Nov 19;9(1):47–65. doi: 10.1007/s12402-016-0208-3

Table 7.

Twelve-month treatment among respondents with multiply imputed DSM-IV/CIDI adult attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (n = 26,744)

General medical
Any mental health
Human services
CAMb
Any professional
Any treatment for ADHD
%a (SE) %a (SE) %a (SE) %a (SE) %a (SE) %a (SE)
I. High income countries
 Belgium 10.5 (10.5) 13.8 (7.8) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 21.5 (11.1) 0.0 (0.0)
 France 7.4 (2.7) 5.6 (3.3) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 9.6 (3.6) 0.0 (0.0)
 Germany 0.0 (0.0) 6.9 (5.8) 2.7 (2.8) 0.0 (0.0) 9.7 (6.0) 0.0 (0.0)
 Italy 10.6 (4.2) 4.4 (2.8) 0.0 (0.0) 1.3 (1.3) 11.9 (4.5) 0.0 (0.0)
 Netherlands 18.6 (9.1) 18.8 (10.5) 2.2 (2.2) 12.3 (8.6) 23.8 (10.8) 1.9 (1.7)
 Northern Ireland 18.9 (6.7) 13.9 (6.2) 0.6 (0.6) 2.6 (2.6) 25.5 (9.1) 0.6 (0.6)
 Poland 7.2 (5.9) 3.5 (2.6) 4.2 (3.1) 0.0 (0.0) 12.9 (6.9) 5.8 (5.7)
 Portugal 20.4 (8.0) 4.9 (3.3) 1.8 (1.8) 0.0 (0.0) 22.4 (8.1) 0.0 (0.0)
 Spain 10.2 (5.6) 13.9 (6.9) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 19.9 (8.9) 3.2 (3.4)
 Spain—Murcia 10.4 (5.8) 4.2 (6.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 14.6 (5.2) 0.0 (0.0)
 USA 27.9 (4.3) 28.6 (3.8) 12.5 (2.5) 9.3 (2.3) 49.7 (4.1) 13.2 (2.9)
 Total 17.9 (2.2) 15.9 (2.0) 4.9 (1.0) 4.4 (1.1) 28.8 (2.6) 5.1 (1.1)
II. Upper-middle income countries
 Brazil—São Paulo 7.2 (2.4) 12.3 (3.3) 1.1 (1.0) 4.8 (2.1) 20.4 (4.2) 1.9 (1.1)
 Colombia—Medellin 1.3 (1.3) 7.7 (3.7) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 9.0 (4.4) 0.0 (0.0)
 Lebanon 0.3 (1.5) 0.8 (0.9) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 1.1 (1.7) 0.0 (0.0)
 Mexico 2.9 (1.9) 8.2 (4.9) 0.0 (0.0) 2.1 (1.4) 12.4 (5.1) 1.9 (1.9)
 Romania 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0)
 Total 4.9 (1.5) 9.8 (2.2) 0.7 (0.6) 3.1 (1.3) 15.5 (2.8) 1.4 (0.7)
III. Low/lower-middle income countries
 Columbia 0.6 (0.4) 6.4 (3.3) 0.4 (0.4) 0.8 (0.8) 7.2 (3.4) 0.0 (0.0)
 Iraq 0.0 (0.0) 0.0 (0.0) 0.7 (1.2) 0.0 (0.0) 0.7 (1.2) 0.0 (0.0)
 Peru 0.0 (0.0) 12.9 (4.9) 0.0 (0.0) 3.6 (3.5) 15.7 (5.7) 0.0 (0.0)
 PRCc—Shenzhen 1.0 (0.8) 2.3 (2.3) 0.0 (0.0) 2.4 (1.3) 5.4 (2.8) 0.0 (0.0)
 Total 0.6 (0.3) 5.0 (1.6) 0.3 (0.2) 1.6 (0.8) 6.8 (1.8) 0.0 (0.0)
IV. Total 11.8 (1.4) 12.6 (1.4) 3.1 (0.7) 3.7 (0.7) 21.8 (1.9) 3.3 (0.7)
 χ2 51.7* 13.7* 16.5* 3.6 35.8* 3.6
*

Significant at the .05 level, two-sided test

a

% with 12-month treatment among those with ADHD

b

Complimentary and alternative medicine

c

People’s Republic of China