Very Hyperactive Children at Risk When Crossing Street

Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or hyperactivity is more clumsy than other children. But children with ADHD have more difficulty and risk in crossing and crossing the road.

Children with ADHD will still look left and right when crossing the road. But the decisions taken during the crossing time is not right. ADHD child is not crossing when the car is still far away but chose a short pause when the car's position was too close.

The study, conducted by researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows how children with ADHD have more difficulty in avoiding traffic streets than other children.

In previous studies also have shown that ADHD children have greater risk of common injuries, and adults who are at risk of ADHD tend to while driving.

Researchers enrolled 39 children aged between 7-10 years who have ADHD. This study uses a crossroads generated from the computer. 39 known children with ADHD will be less safe in crossing the road.

"Children with ADHD have different ways to cross, they tend to choose to cross under conditions more dangerous," said Despina Stavrinos adi from the University of Alabama Birmingham Injury Control Research Center, as quoted by LiveScience, Tuesday (07/26/2011).

In this study of children with ADHD look right look left before crossing. But when he crossed into less secure, because it will cross when traffic conditions closer to the body, resulting in children with ADHD have little time left to reach the other side of the road.

"The difference is in the decision. Children with ADHD obtain the same information with the control children, but less effective in processing the information so that decision-making when defection is different," said Stavrinos.

The results of this study are useful to inform parents that children with ADHD need special training before letting them play outside or walk alone without supervision.

"You have to monitor children with ADHD are more intensive than other children to be more awake and secure his safety," said Professor Russell Barkley a clinical psychologist from the Medical University of South Carolina.