AU - atar, fatemeh AU - shojaee, zahra TI - The study of mother’s knowledge regarding their children, s Attention Deficit ‎Hyperactivity Disorder ‎ PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - gums-hnmj JN - gums-hnmj VO - 16 VI - 2 IP - 2 4099 - http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-237-en.html 4100 - http://hnmj.gums.ac.ir/article-1-237-en.pdf SO - gums-hnmj 2 AB  - Introduction: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common psychiatric ‎disorder among school age children. Late diagnosis can cause bad side effect in their children ‎and young adolescent’s social, occupational and educational relationships. It’s obvious that ‎mothers’ knowledge can have an effect on follow up process.‎ Objective: The goal of this study is to determine the level of mothers’ knowledge regarding ‎ADHD.‎ Methods: This is a descriptive study and its sample consisted of ‎‏60‏‎ mothers whose children ‎were diagnosed with ADHD during first three months of ‎‏2008‏‎ and were reffered to ‎Educational center of Shafa in Rasht. Study instrument was a questionnaire and results were ‎analyzed by descriptive statistics. ‎ Results: Findings showed that the majority of samples (‎‏68%‏‎) had moderate knowledge ‎regarding the disease. ‎ Conclusion: Due to moderate knowledge level/giving more education regarding children's ‎mental health is necessary. ‎ CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - gums-hnmj PG - 14 PT - Research YR - 2006