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Abstract
Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common psychiatric disorder of childhood with an estimated prevalence of 5-10%. It is a neurocognitive behavioral developmental disorder defined by pervasive and impairing age-inappropriate symptoms of inattention, impulsivity, and/or hyperactivity. Previous studies have demonstrated a relationship between ADHD and eating disorders, particularly binge eating disorders (BED).
Objective: To identify the rate of occurrence of binge eating disorder in patients with ADHD and to highlight if there is a relation between binge eating, impulsivity and ADHD.
Patients and Methods: This study is a cross sectional observational study that was conducted on 75 ADHD patients and was conducted in the Institute of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine/Ain Shams University during the period January 2020 – November 2020. Participants were subjected to a semi structured predesigned sheet: for collection of socio-demographic and clinical data, (K-SADS PL) to screen for the diagnosis of ADHD and to exclude other axis-I comorbid psychiatric condition, Conner’s Parent Rating Scale-revised, long version to detect the core symptoms of ADHD, detect its subtypes and assess severity, Binge Eating Scale (BES) to assess the presence or absence of recurrent binge eating behaviors and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS) to measure of impulsiveness .
Results: The main findings of this study were that 69.3% of the included patients were males and 16% had a family history of ADHD. As regards the types of ADHD, 56% of patients had combined type, 30.7% had inattentive type and 13.3% had hyperactive-impulsive type. 9.3% of the included patients had BED. However, BED was not significantly associated with Conners subscales or types of ADHD. No statistically significant association was found between BED and socio-demographic factors, apart from BMI as ADHD patients with BED had significantly higher BMI compared to those without BED. Most important, a statistically significant positive correlation was found between binge eating and impulsivity scores.
Conclusion: It can be concluded from this study that BED is common in adolescents with ADHD as it is found in 9.3% of the current study’s sample, in whom impulsivity can be proposed as a contributing factor for BED. These findings can have important implications for prevention and early intervention programs, which might usefully focus on mood regulation in individuals with ADHD symptoms at risk for developing disordered eating.