Association between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and attention deficit in students aged 6 to 12 years old from private educational institutions in Metropolitan Lima and Arequipa, 2022

• Autores: Isa, Akari Matsumoto, Schultz, Carolina Emperatriz Ortiz, Seyfarth, Daniela Quiroga, Alva, Valeria Marina Ruiz, Mamani-Urrutia, Víctor, Espinoza-Rojas, Rubén
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2023
• Institución: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
• Repositorio: UPC-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/668619
• Enlace del recurso: http://hdl.handle.net/10757/668619
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity; Industrialized Foods; School Feeding; Ultra-processed foods; Attention deficit; Schoolchildren; 6 to 12 years of age; Private educational institutions; Lima and Arequipa; Cross-sectional analytical study; ADHD; Consumption of snacks

Background: It is important to highlight the easy access that schoolchildren have today to ultra-processed products, and the prevalence of attention deficit has also been increasing in this age group. The objective of this study was to determine the association between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and attention deficit in schoolchildren from 6 to 12 years of age in private educational institutions in the cities of Lima and Arequipa in Peru in 2022. Methods: Cross-sectional analytical study. A non-probabilistic sampling was carried out, for convenience, the sample collected was 217 schoolchildren in 4 private educational institutions in the cities of Lima and Arequipa in Peru in 2022. Results: Of the total number of participants, 57.1% were women, 52.1% had ADHD, and 87.1% had a higher consumption of ultra-processed foods. No association was found between the main characteristics of ADHD and the consumption of ultra-processed foods in the evaluated schoolchildren (p>0.05), but there is an association between the consumption of snacks and ADHD (p[removed]