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Ninety-one of an original one hundred and four patients in a prospective study of chronically and severely hyperactive children were re-examined five years later. They had been patients in a psychiatric outpatient department
from 1961 to 1966. Although the initial target symptoms had diminished, they remained significantly greater than in the matched control group. Higher scores resulted on tests of neuroticism, psychopathy, and immaturity. Pharmacotherapy showed mixed results. Psychotherapy appeared to affect neuroticism scores only. No single item was of predictive value, but a cluster of twelve variables did allow for successful predictive grouping.