ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2022
The longitudinal association of eating behaviour and ADHD symptoms in school age children: a follow-up study in the RHEA cohort.
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- Dietary Carbohydrates and ADHD Symptoms: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- Association of unprocessed and ultra-processed food consumption and ADHD symptoms: evidence from a Brazilian population-based cohort.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Validation of the German Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) in children and adolescents with eating disorders and ADHD.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Eating behavior and sleep habit problems and their correlation with symptoms in children with ADHD comorbid with overweight or obesity.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Exploring the bidirectional associations of ADHD symptomatology, nutritional status, and body composition in childhood: evidence from a Brazilian Birth Cohort Study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2025Article
- Comparing eating and mealtime experiences in families of children with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and dual diagnosis.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2025Article
- Child eating behavior predicts body mass index after 1 year: results from the Swiss Preschooler's Health Study (SPLASHY).Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Neurobehavioral phenotypes of delay discounting and cognitive control in child attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and obesity: Shared or distinct?Pediatric obesity · 2023Article
- Processed Food-Sweets Patterns and Related Behaviors with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder among Children: A Case-Control Study.Nutrients · 2023Article
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Abstract
Previous evidence suggests a link between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and disordered eating behaviours; however, the direction of the causal association remains unclear. Building on our previous research, we aimed to examine the longitudinal association between eating behaviours at 4 years, ADHD symptoms at 6 years of age, and the role of body mass index (BMI). We included children from the RHEA mother-child cohort in Greece, followed up at 4 and 6 years (n = 926). Parents completed the Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) to assess children's eating behaviour at 4 years and the ADHD Test (ADHDT) and Child Behaviour Checklist for ages 6-18 (CBCL/6-18) to evaluate ADHD symptoms at 4 and 6 years, respectively, as well as measures of BMI. Longitudinal structural equation modeling (SEM) was carried out to evaluate the associations of all variables between 4 and 6 years. Food responsiveness at 4 years was positively associated with hyperactivity at age 6, whereas emotional overeating was negatively associated with hyperactivity. There was no evidence of an association between eating behaviours of preschoolers and BMI at 6 years, or BMI at 4 years and later ADHD symptoms and vice versa. Findings suggest that food responsiveness is an early marker of ADHD symptoms at 6 years of age. In contrast to our hypothesis there was no significant association between ADHD at age 4 and BMI at age 6.
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