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Received: 21 March 2018

Accepted: 23 November 2018

First Online: 13 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Würzburg (ID 120/06). All children, both parents or relevant guardians and (if applicable) teachers were verbally informed and received information sheets about the scope and the relevance of the study as well as the manner of data collection and processing. All parties had the opportunity to clarify questions with the research staff members. For study participation, children were required to give their written assent; parents, guardians and teachers had to provide their written informed consent.

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: Barbara Alm gave lectures for Eli Lilly.Katja Becker is trained in behavioral as well as family therapy and is member of the executive committee of a training institute for behavioral therapy for physicians as well as psychologists (Institut für Verhaltenstherapie und Verhaltensmedizin). She was on the Advisory Board of Eli Lilly/Germany (up to 2014) and was paid for public speaking by Shire (one scientific lecture in December 2015). No research/clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical industry within the last 5 years.Manfred Döpfner received consulting income and research support from Lilly, Medice, Shire, Janssen Cilag, Novartis, and Vifor and research support from the German Research Foundation, German Ministry of Education and Research, and German Ministry of Health. He received income as Head, supervisor, and lecturer at the School of Child and Adolescent Behavior Therapy at the University Hospital Cologne and as a consultant for Child Behavior Therapy at the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung). He also received royalties from treatment manuals, books and psychological tests published by Beltz, Elsevier, Enke, Guilford, Hogrefe, Huber, Kohlhammer, Schattauer, Springer, and Wiley.Christine M. Freitag has been a scientific adviser for Desitin and Roche regarding Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She receives royalties for books and intervention manuals on ADHD and ASD. She has received research funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the European Commission.Alexander Häge received speaker’s fees, was on advisory boards or has been involved in clinical trials by Shire, E. Lilly, Janssen-Cilag, Otsuka, Lundbeck and Servier.Christopher Hautmann is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy.Klaus Hennighausen did not report any conflicts of interest with respect to other articles on the AIMAC study.Sarah Hohmann received a speaker’s fee from Shire in 2015.Josepha Katzmann is trained in cognitive behavioral therapy.Swantje Matthies received speaker’s fees from 2007 to 2009 and was involved as a study physician in clinical trials conducted by Janssen-Cilag and Lilly. She is currently involved in clinical trials conducted by Janssen and Lundbeck.Alexandra Philipsen has served on advisory boards, given lectures, performed phase 3 studies, or received travel grants within the last 3 years from Eli Lilly and Co, Janssen-Cilag, MEDICE Arzneimittel Putter GmbH and Co KG, Novartis, and Shire; and has authored books and articles on psychotherapy published by Elsevier, Hogrefe, Schattauer, Kohlhammer, Karger, Springer, and Oxford University Press.Luise Poustka has received conference attendance support and speaker’s fees from Lilly, Shire and Medice.Wolfgang Retz receives royalties for diagnostic instruments and treatment manuals for adult ADHD published by Hogrefe, Elsevier and Kohlhammer.Michael Rösler is a member of the speaker’s bureau of Medice, Shire and Lilly. He is a member of the advisory board of Medice and Shire.Stephanie Schürmann is an author of the treatment manual THOP. Through the development of materials and supervision, she collaborated with Eli Lilly and Shire.Esther Sobanski has been a member of the advisory board of Shire Deutschland and Medice.Andreas Warnke has not had contact with relevant companies for the last 5 years. He is a former President of the World Federation of ADHD; no conflict of interest with regard to this project and article.Tanja Wolff Metternich-Kaizman is an author of a behavioral prevention program and of an ADHD guide, both published by Hogrefe, Göttingen. Through the development of materials and supervision, she collaborated with Eli Lilly and Shire. The same companies provided a grant for the ADHD Competence Network Cologne, of which she is a member.Michael Colla, Julia Geissler, Laura Gentschow, Barbara Haack-Dees, Christian Jacob, Charlotte Jaite, Thomas Jans, Viola Kappel, Katja Schneider-Momm and Alexander von Gontard are not aware of any conflicts that might be perceived as affecting the objectivity of this article.

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