Young people's accounts of self, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and stimulant medication | C4C

This research project aims to explore how young people aged 13-17, who take stimulant medication, further to an ADHD diagnosis talk about ADHD, medication and themselves. To do this focus groups and interviews will be conducted with young people at Sunshine House, where South London and Maudsley child and adolescent neurodevelopmental service is based. Each participant will attend either a focus group or an interview of up to one hour. Questions will be designed to explore the language that young people use to understand, and communicate, their experience of taking stimulant medication, as part of an ADHD care pathway. The focus groups and interviews will be transcribed and analysed using discourse analysis.