Trial reportEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2009
A randomised controlled trial into the effects of food on ADHD.
Trial report in European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.
- Serum ferritin in children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2026Pooled it
- Iron Status in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
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- Meta-analysis of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms, restriction diet, and synthetic food color additives.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2012Pooled it
- Correlation between brain function and ADHD symptom changes in children with ADHD following a few-foods diet: an open-label intervention trial.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- The effect of dietary approaches to stop hypertension (DASH) diet on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms: a randomized controlled clinical trial.European journal of nutrition · 2021Trial
- Effects of food on physical and sleep complaints in children with ADHD: a randomised controlled pilot study.European journal of pediatrics · 2010Trial
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- Parental Perspectives on Eating Disorders of Their School-Age Children with ADHD in Hong Kong: A Qualitative Study.Nutrients · 2025Article
- The Impact of Integrating a Low-Lectin Diet with Traditional ADHD Treatments on Gut Microbiota Composition and Symptom Improvement in Children - A Cohort Study.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2024Article
- Algorithmic lifestyle optimization.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Long-Term Effects of an Oligoantigenic Diet in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on Core Symptomatology.Nutrients · 2022Article
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- Oligoantigenic Diet Improves Children's ADHD Rating Scale Scores Reliably in Added Video-Rating.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- Retrospective Outcome Monitoring of ADHD and Nutrition (ROMAN): The Effectiveness of the Few-Foods Diet in General Practice.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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- Rationale for Dietary Antioxidant Treatment of ADHD.Nutrients · 2018Review
- Editorial focused issue 'The role of nutrition in child and adolescent onset mental disorders'.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2017Article
- Is there potential for the treatment of children with ADHD beyond psychostimulants?European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2011Article
- Where to with treatment for ADHD?Current medical research and opinion · 2011Article
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Authors and funding
6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
The aim of this study is to assess the efficacy of a restricted elimination diet in reducing symptoms in an unselected group of children with Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Dietary studies have already shown evidence of efficacy in selected subgroups. Twenty-seven children (mean age 6.2) who all met the DSM-IV criteria for ADHD, were assigned randomly to either an intervention group (15/27) or a waiting-list control group (12/27). Primary endpoint was the clinical response, i.e. a decrease in the symptom scores by 50% or more, at week 9 based on parent and teacher ratings on the abbreviated ten-item Conners Scale and the ADHD-DSM-IV Rating Scale. The intention-to-treat analysis showed that the number of clinical responders in the intervention group was significantly larger than that in the control group [parent ratings 11/15 (73%) versus 0/12 (0%); teacher ratings, 7/10 (70%) versus 0/7 (0%)]. The Number of ADHD criteria on the ADHD Rating Scale showed an effect size of 2.1 (cohen's d) and a scale reduction of 69.4%. Comorbid symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder also showed a significantly greater decrease in the intervention group than it did in the control group (cohens's d 1.1, scale reduction 45.3%). A strictly supervised elimination diet may be a valuable instrument in testing young children with ADHD on whether dietary factors may contribute to the manifestation of the disorder and may have a beneficial effect on the children's behaviour.
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