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Chunk #20 — Results — Neuropsychological Measures — D-KEFS

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Neuropsychological deficits associated with heavy prenatal alcohol exposure are not exacerbated by ADHD.
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There were significant multivariate effects for AE [F (7, 311) = 11.02, p < .001, partial η2 = .199], ADHD [F (7, 311) = 3.43, p = .001, partial η2 = .072], and the covariates of Sex [F (7, 313) = 3.96, p < .001, partial η2 = .082] and Age [F (7,311) = 4.72, p < .001, partial η2 = .096) for D-KEFS subtest scores. The AE × ADHD diagnosis interaction was also significant [F (7, 311) = 2.52, p = .016, partial η2 = .054]. To probe the significant multivariate effects, we examined between-subjects effects on each individual dependent variable. There were statistically significant main effects for AE and ADHD on all D-KEFS subtest scores with the exception of Tower Test (TT), which, while significant for ADHD (p = .002), was not significant for AE (p = .088). Thus, children with histories of prenatal alcohol exposure had significantly lower scores than the non-exposed groups on all executive functioning measures, except on TT, regardless of ADHD diagnosis. Also, children with ADHD exhibited lower scores on the D-KEFS than children