[ PAPER ] · 1999 · Archives of General Psychiatry
A 14-month randomized clinical trial of treatment strategies for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The MTA Cooperative Group. Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD.
P. Jensen, L. Arnold, Je Richters, J. Severe, D. Vereen, B. Vitiello, E. Schiller, S. Hinshaw, G. Elliott, C. Conners, K. Wells, K. Wagner, J. Swanson, T. Wigal, D. Cantwell, H. Abikoff, J. Hechtman, Ll Greeenhill, J. Newcorn, W. D. Pelham, B. Hoza, H. Kraemer
No open-access PDF, so we'll narrate a briefing from the abstract instead.
[ TLDR ]
The authors' carefully crafted medication management was superior to behavioral treatment and to routine community care that included medication for ADHD symptoms, and may have provided modest advantages for non-ADHD symptom and positive functioning outcomes.