Publications by authors named "E Michael Bohlig"
Objective: To evaluate the impact of changing the response labels of a teacher rating scale in a population-based study of ADHD.
Method: For parents, the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, which asks whether each of 18 symptoms occurred "often" in the past year, was used. For teachers, most scales use a 4-point scale, with often and very often as the two highest categories.
Objectives: This study estimated the prevalence of medication treatment for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) among elementary school children in a North Carolina county.
Methods: Parents of 7333 children in grades 1 through 5 in 17 public elementary schools were asked whether their child had ever been given a diagnosis of ADHD by a psychologist or physician and whether their child was currently taking medication to treat ADHD. Parents of 6099 children (83%) responded.
Clinical and epidemiologic evidence suggests that alcoholism complicated by concurrent or a lifetime history of depression is slower to remit and more prone to relapse than uncomplicated alcoholism. Consequently, alcoholics with a history of depressive illness, on average, are likely to use more health care and to have higher treatment costs than those without depression complications. This article contrasts evidence of the suitability of three models for predicting the impact of depression on an alcoholic's health-care use: a null model (assuming no differences), a cumulative-effect model (arguing for a linear increase associated with comorbid depression), and a synergistic model (wherein alcoholism complicated with depression is qualitatively as well as quantitatively different than uncomplicated alcoholism).
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