The Level of General Education Teachers' Knowledge of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in the Primary Cycle at the State of Kuwait

Abstract

The purpose of this study are to investigate the level of general education teachers’ knowledge of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at primary school in the State of Kuwait, to explore the effect of gender and subject. The sample of the study consisted of 250 male and female teachers in the primary school at Al-Ahmadi and Jahra Educational Area. The researcher administrated Bruna )2004( scale translated by the authors, and then used suitable statistical procedures. The results of the study showed that the level of the teachers' general knowledge of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was low as the mean totalled 48.9% and there were no significant statistical differences between male and female teachers on the level of knowing this disorder. Furthermore, the findings showed that Arabic language teachers had knowledge about this disorder compared to other majors.