Food perceptions in adults with and without ADHD
Food perceptions in adults with and without ADHD
INTRODUCTION: Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have unhealthy eating habits, associated with overweight/obesity. We explored whether they present with different food-related benefit/risk perceptions, compared to those without ADHD.
Methods: one hundred five university students with (n = 36) and without (n = 69) ADHD, aged 22-30, participated in the study. They rated the level of frequency and likelihood of food consumption, as well as the perceived attractiveness, convenience, and risk of 32 healthy and unhealthy food items.
Results: the findings revealed significantly lower healthy/unhealthy food frequency consumption ratios for the ADHD group compared with the non-ADHD one but no differences in the ratios of estimated likelihood of food consumption and perceptions (attractiveness, convenience, and risk).
Conclusions: the results of this study demonstrated a discrepancy between the eating behavior (more unhealthy eating patterns in adults with ADHD compared with controls) and their food-related perceptions (same perceptions regarding the benefit and risk of foods in both groups).
Adult, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/complications, Case-Control Studies, Feeding Behavior, Humans
292-300
Hershko, Shirley
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Cortese, Samuele
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Aronis, Anna
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Maeir, Adina
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Pollak, Yehuda
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Aronis, Anna
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Maeir, Adina
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Hershko, Shirley, Cortese, Samuele, Ert, Eyal, Aronis, Anna, Maeir, Adina and Pollak, Yehuda
(2022)
Food perceptions in adults with and without ADHD.
Psychopathology, 55 (5), .
(doi:10.1159/000524315).
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have unhealthy eating habits, associated with overweight/obesity. We explored whether they present with different food-related benefit/risk perceptions, compared to those without ADHD.
Methods: one hundred five university students with (n = 36) and without (n = 69) ADHD, aged 22-30, participated in the study. They rated the level of frequency and likelihood of food consumption, as well as the perceived attractiveness, convenience, and risk of 32 healthy and unhealthy food items.
Results: the findings revealed significantly lower healthy/unhealthy food frequency consumption ratios for the ADHD group compared with the non-ADHD one but no differences in the ratios of estimated likelihood of food consumption and perceptions (attractiveness, convenience, and risk).
Conclusions: the results of this study demonstrated a discrepancy between the eating behavior (more unhealthy eating patterns in adults with ADHD compared with controls) and their food-related perceptions (same perceptions regarding the benefit and risk of foods in both groups).
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 March 2022
e-pub ahead of print date: 5 May 2022
Published date: 1 December 2022
Keywords:
Adult, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/complications, Case-Control Studies, Feeding Behavior, Humans
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/476091
ISSN: 0254-4962
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Shirley Hershko
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Eyal Ert
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Anna Aronis
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Adina Maeir
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Yehuda Pollak
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