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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Increase the proportion of children and adolescents with ADHD who get appropriate treatment — EMC‑04 Data

Status: Little or no detectable change

  Little or no detectable change
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Most Recent Data:
72.5 percent (2020-21)

Target:
79.4 percent

Desired Direction:
Increase desired

Baseline:
75.2 percent of children and adolescents aged 4 to 17 years with current ADHD had received treatment for ADHD (behavior treatment for children aged 4 to 5 years; medication and/or behavior treatment for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years) in the past 12 months in 2016-17

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Children and adolescents with ADHD who get appropriate treatment, 2016-17 to 2020-21 ◊
(percent)
Increase desired

Population 2016-17 2018-19 2020-21
Total
75.2
CI 72.4 / 77.7
SE 1.350
76.9
CI 74.5 / 79.1
SE 1.172
72.5
CI 70.4 / 74.4
SE 1.033