Objective: to describe the amount of hours spent and the type of video games chosen by children with Atention Deficit Hiperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis.

Material and Methods: Descriptive cross sectional study. We selected patients 5 years and older seen at the child neurology department, between January and August of 2013.  A phone interview was conducted regarding the hours spent in video games and its nature (action, violence, sports, strategy).

Results: 80 patients were included. Mean age was 9,5 years; 40% had ADHD diagnosis, the others presented other diagnoses (dyslexia, dyscalculia, language disorder, others). 87% of the patients with ADHD play some kind of video game while 62% of patients in the other group do so (p=0,02).  In average the children with ADHD used computer and videogames on a daily basis 1.3 hours and 0.8 hours respectively.  The favorite games were: Action 31%, Violence 15%, Sport 31%, Strategy 28%, no differences with the group of patients without ADHD were observed. Only 13% of the ADHD patients did not play video games.

Conclusion: We observed that 87% of the children in the ADHD group played videogames, 40% more children compared to the other group.   No differences were found regarding the hours spent per day or the type of game chosen. Since ADHD population need more time to study, we should encourage them to improve the way they administer their time. Besides, videogames could be a good strategy to improve attention an executive functions in ADHD if chosen properly.