Investigation of factors related to the psychological health of individuals with ADHD

This study aims to investigate the difficulties that adult individuals who are diagnosed with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder face in life, what strategies they form while dealing with these difficulties and who they get support from when developing these strategies. Face-to-face interviews were conducted with a total of 11 people, 4 of whom were women and 7 were men, between the ages of 21 and 35 who were diagnosed with ADHD. The findings were evaluated using the interpretive phenomenological analysis method. The analysis result emerged in 4 super-ordinate themes. These are ; (1) life difficulties, (2) strategies to cope with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, (3) ways to explore strategies to cope with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder, and (4) developing strategies by the support of the people. Sub-themes that come into prominence in super-ordinate theme of life difficulties are (a) forgetfulness, (b) difficulty in friendship relations, (c) inability to listen to lessons, (d) failure and (e) inattantion. The sub-themes of discovering the ways of copping with the difficulties of ADHD super-ordinate theme are (a) keeping the location of the items fixed, (b) systematic progress , (c) getting support of friends and (d) creating a to-do list. Learning by yourself appears to be the sub-theme of super-ordinate theme of ways to explore strategies to cope with attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder. Lastly under the Super-ordinate theme of developing strategies by the support of the people / resources is the family sub-theme. The findings are discussed in the light of the information in the literature.