Shima Bagherzadeh
Haybusak University of Yerevan, Armenia
Title: Dietary patterns in ADHD children comparing with normal children
Biography
Biography: Shima Bagherzadeh
Abstract
Background: ADHD is one of disorders in children that influence in brain. Current symptoms are hyperactivity, hypersensivity, and attention deficit.
Objective: We aimed to compare dietary patterns in ADHD and normal children in Kerman. Method: The present study included 80 children (40 with ADHD, 40 normal); mean (S.D.) age=83.43±30.74 months. Children's dietary patterns were assessed by FFQ questionnaire. It consists of 13 items to assess the frequency of food groups. ADHD was assessed via the Diagnostic of physician.
Results: The mean age of the children was 83.43±30.74 months. Daily consumption of kinds of fat and soft drinks was reported respectively 58.5%, 78.6% and more than 50% and 42.9% by ADHD and normal children. Consumption of fast food in ADHD was 7.3% daily and 39.0% weekly; however in normal children was 2.4% daily and 19.0% weekly
Conclusion: We identified unhealthy dietary patterns that included daily consumption for sugars, fats, fast foods, and soft drinks in this study. We found there was a significant difference between ADHD and normal children consumption in fast foods. Normal children had healthier dietary pattern than ADHD.
Keywords: Healthy Diet, ADHD, Dietary pattern, unhealthy diet