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Received: 9 October 2023

Accepted: 5 January 2024

First Online: 11 January 2024

Declarations

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: Approval was granted by the Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK) Nord (21.02.2022 / 416616) and the Research Department at Nord-Trondelag Hospital Trust (DAC): 2021/52–13075/2022. Research ethics principles were upheld with regard to policy, security, and internal quality checks, and the research was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Data materials were stored according to guidelines by Medical and Health Research Ethics. We confirm that written informed consent was obtained from all participants in this study. Ethical approval was also granted from the Committee for Medical and Health Research Ethics (REK) 20.02.2015 (2015/178) for the previous study [CitationRef removed].

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: The first author, Inger Lise Rasmussen, is an educational therapist in child and adolescent psychiatric services at Hospital of Namsos, Nord-Trøndelag Hospital Trust, and holds an academic degree, Cand.polit, from Norwegian University of Science and Technology: NTNU, Trondheim. The main research of interest are young people living with a diagnosis of ADHD and protective factors such as self-esteem, resilience, and recovery perspective.The second author, Jorun Schei, MD, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychiatrist at St. Olavs University Hospital, Trondheim, and an associate professor at NTNU, Trondheim. The main research interests are neuropsychiatry, including ADHD, comorbidity, risk, and protective factors in a long-term perspective. Schei is the leader of the Health Survey in Department of Children and Youth, St. Olavs Hospital, a prospective longitudinal cohort study of psychiatric morbidity in an adolescent clinical population.The third author, Kristin Berre Ørjasæter, is an associate professor in health and social sciences at Nord University, Faculty of Nursing and Health Science Namsos and leader of Mental Health Research Group at Nord University. She has a long-standing clinical experience as a therapist in specialized mental health services. The main research interests are mental health work, recovery-oriented practices, and citizenship.