تقييم النمط الغذائي للأطفال ذوي اضطراب فرط الحركة و تشتت الانتباه في بعض المدارس الابتدائية في الرياض

الملخص EN

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a problem in children that of not being able to focus, being overactive, not being able control behavior, or a combination of these.

For these problems to be diagnosed as ADHD, they must be out of the normal range for a person's age and development.

However, research suggests that certain food products may play at least some role in affecting ADHD symptoms in a subgroup of patients.

Subsequently it is needed to focus on the dietary habits for this category due to the recent increment in the incidence of ADHD in Arab society.

Most of the ADHD children 71.54% didn’t exercise daily, sleeping time less than six hours per day, and also watching TV daily between two to three hours.

All this life style and habits may have bad effects on the behavior of ADHD children.

On other hand, the majority of the sample had skipping their main meals, and they have their meal in school from canteen.

The majority of children have bad food choices, which tend to be unhealthy diets like fast foods, snacks, fried food that have more sugars and saturated fats and low levels of fruits and vegetables, fresh juice and essential protein sources, All these unhealthy eating habits must be taken in attention in awareness educational programs for ADHD children.

The current study aimed to assess the dietary habits of a sample of ADHD children and the eating practices, as well as the sociodemographic data, health status of children and food frequency for some kinds of food, which may affected on the behavior of ADHD children.

A sample of (130) child with symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), after diagnosed the symptoms of ADHD among the sample of students using the assessment tool by teachers and parents ‘for the assessment the socio-demographic ‘eating habits ‘health status and also eating frequency questionnaire was used among the studied sample accomplished by parents.

Eating habits and the severity of ADHD symptoms have been assessing.

The results showed that the majority of studied sample was 62.3% male and 37.69% female students.

Most of the students’ families with high monthly income, and university educational level, 37.69% of the samples did not suffer from chronic disease, and others 62.92% of the children have a food allergy.

A round 36.15% of children were underweight inversely 32.32% were overweight both of them are considered malnutrition.

Most of the ADHD children 71.54% didn’t exercise daily, sleeping time less than six hours per day ‘and also watching TV daily between two to three hours .All these life style and habits may have bad effects on the behavior of ADHD children .

On other hand, the majority of the sample had skipping their main meals, and they have their meal in school from canteen.

Most of the children have bad food choices, which tend to be unhealthy diets like fast foods, snacks, fried food that have more sugars and saturated fats and low levels of fruits and vegetables, fresh juice and essential protein sources, All these unhealthy eating habits must be taken in attention in awareness educational programs for ADHD children