Abstract
Objective: to identify the opinion of parents or guardians of adolescents diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) about their children's exposure as perpetrators or victims of violence situations in family life or outside. Method: qualitative study with use of thematic oral history. Nine parents of 07 adolescents with ADHD participated. Data were collected from April to September of 2013 using thematic interview. The interviews were recorded at scheduled times at the participants' home, with an average duration of 30 minutes. The findings were submitted to inductive thematic analysis. Results: data analysis allowed the identification of the occurrence of "Conflicts in family life" and "Conflicts in the context of school and community". Parents reported the involvement of their children as victims, perpetrators and witnesses of physical and psychological violence, and the difficulty of them and the school to understand and handle these situations. Conclusion: violence occurs in ADHD adolescents' interpersonal relationships. Communication between health professionals, school and families is precarious. Through the systematization of nursing care, nurses can plan strategies that articulate support networks and interpersonal relationships of adolescents with the disorder (family and school).
Highlights
Psychiatric disorders affect about 10-20% of children and adolescents worldwide and are a major cause of health related disability in this age group[1]
It is possible that episodes of violence caused and received by the individual with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are present in different contexts experienced in adolescence
In the present study we sought to identify the opinion of parents or guardians of adolescents diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) about their children’s exposure as perpetrators or victims of violence situations in family life or outside
Summary
Psychiatric disorders affect about 10-20% of children and adolescents worldwide and are a major cause of health related disability in this age group[1]. In families of low socioeconomic level, with low levels of affection, disharmonious and where parents do not monitor their children’s activities, these tend to have widespread indifference and little affective bonding in interpersonal relationships. They become more vulnerable to the influence of colleagues who can lead them to get involved with aggressive people or drug users, and the consequent exposure to risky situations[7]. There are indications that their parents tend to employ methods to discipline them that can configure physical and/or psychological violence Another aspect noted is that the indirect exposure to violence, i.e., to witness violence in the family, emotionally affects the person with ADHD[2]
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