TY - JOUR
T1 - The Association of Lifestyle Factors and ADHD in Children
AU - Holton, Kathleen
AU - Nigg, Joel T.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article - R37MH59105.
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© The Author(s) 2016.
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - Objective: The objective of the study is to examine whether children aged 7 to 11 years with very well-characterized ADHD, recruited from the community, have a similar number of healthy lifestyle behaviors as compared with typically developing children from the same community. Method: Parents of children with (n = 184) and without (n = 104) ADHD completed a lifestyle questionnaire asking about water intake, sweetened beverage consumption, multivitamin/supplement use, reading, screen time, physical activity, and sleep. A lifestyle index was formed from these seven domains (0-7), and multivariable ordered logistic regression was used to examine the association of ADHD status and total healthy lifestyle behaviors. Results: Children with ADHD were almost twice as likely to have fewer healthy behaviors, even after adjustment for age, sex, intelligence quotient (IQ), ADHD medication use, household income, and four comorbid psychiatric disorders (odds ratio [OR] [95% confidence interval] = 1.95 [1.16, 3.30], p =.01). Conclusion: Future research is needed to assess the effects of a combined lifestyle intervention in this group.
AB - Objective: The objective of the study is to examine whether children aged 7 to 11 years with very well-characterized ADHD, recruited from the community, have a similar number of healthy lifestyle behaviors as compared with typically developing children from the same community. Method: Parents of children with (n = 184) and without (n = 104) ADHD completed a lifestyle questionnaire asking about water intake, sweetened beverage consumption, multivitamin/supplement use, reading, screen time, physical activity, and sleep. A lifestyle index was formed from these seven domains (0-7), and multivariable ordered logistic regression was used to examine the association of ADHD status and total healthy lifestyle behaviors. Results: Children with ADHD were almost twice as likely to have fewer healthy behaviors, even after adjustment for age, sex, intelligence quotient (IQ), ADHD medication use, household income, and four comorbid psychiatric disorders (odds ratio [OR] [95% confidence interval] = 1.95 [1.16, 3.30], p =.01). Conclusion: Future research is needed to assess the effects of a combined lifestyle intervention in this group.
KW - ADHD
KW - diet
KW - exercise
KW - screen time
KW - sleep
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U2 - 10.1177/1087054716646452
DO - 10.1177/1087054716646452
M3 - Article
C2 - 27125993
AN - SCOPUS:85089149890
SN - 1087-0547
VL - 24
SP - 1511
EP - 1520
JO - Journal of attention disorders
JF - Journal of attention disorders
IS - 11
ER -