Published in the Medical Journal of Australia, the research suggests the youngest children in the class are more likely than their older classmates to receive medication for ADHD.
Based upon a sample of more than 300,000 children in Western Australia, researchers from Curtin University compared those that were born in the early and late months of a recommended school-intake and who received at least one prescription for an ADHD medication.
They found that among children aged six to ten, those born in June – the last month of a recommended school-year intake in Western Australia – were nearly twice as likely to have received ADHD medication than those born the previous July, the first intake month.
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