Neighborhood Characteristics and ADHD

Razani, Nooshin; Hilton, Joan F.; Halpern‐Felsher, Bonnie; Okumura, Megumi J.; Morrell, Holly E. R.; Yen, Irene H.

doi:10.1177/1087054714542002

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“…Other research that reported findings of salutary impacts on health and well-being confirmed that both perceptions of social support and actual social support had beneficial health impacts [18,45,63,67,82,104,110,151,152,154,155,156,157,158,159,160,161,162,163]. Similarly, research offered evidence that low quality social relations, lacking social support, or high social disadvantage have adverse health impacts including, but not limited to, general mental/physical health problems, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obesity, and cardiometabolic disease [17,64,107,164,165,166]. Five studies (17%) had either inconclusive or non-significant results for social support impacts on health and well-being [90,92,108,162,167].…”

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State-of-the-Science Review of Non-Chemical Stressors Found in a Child’s Social Environment

Hibbert

Tulve

2019

IJERPH

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Background: Children are exposed to chemical and non-chemical stressors from their built, natural, and social environments. Research is needed to advance our scientific understanding of non-chemical stressors, evaluate how they alter the biological response to a chemical stressor, and determine how they impact children’s health and well-being. To do this, we conducted a state-of-the-science review of non-chemical stressors found in a child’s social environment. Methods: Studies eligible for inclusion in this review were identified through a search of the peer-reviewed literature using PubMed and PsycINFO. Combinations of words associated with non-chemical stressors and children were used to form search strings. Filters were used to limit the search to studies published in peer-reviewed journals from 2000–2016 and written in English. Publications found using the search strings and filters went through two rounds of screening. Results: A total of 146 studies met the inclusion criteria. From these studies, 245 non-chemical stressors were evaluated. The non-chemical stressors were then organized into 13 general topic areas: acculturation, adverse childhood experiences, economic, education, family dynamics, food, greenspace, neighborhood, social, stress, urbanicity, violence, and other. Additional information on health outcomes, studies evaluating both chemical and non-chemical stressors, and animal studies are provided. This review provides evidence that non-chemical stressors found in a child’s social environment do influence their health and well-being in both beneficial (e.g., salutatory effects of greenspace and social support) and adverse (e.g., poor relationships between health and selected non-chemical stressors such as economics, educational attainment, exposure to violence, stress) ways. Conclusions: This literature review identified a paucity of studies addressing the combined effects of chemical and non-chemical stressors and children’s health and well-being. This literature review was further complicated by inconsistencies in terminology, methodologies, and the value of non-chemical stressor research in different scientific disciplines. Despite these limitations, this review showed the importance of considering non-chemical stressors from a child’s social environment when addressing children’s environmental health considerations.

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State-of-the-Science Review of Non-Chemical Stressors Found in a Child’s Social Environment

Hibbert

Tulve

2019

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“…While the literature has discussed links between the residential stability of the child and these disorders, there has been little discussion about the role that resident churn might play in delaying such diagnoses. Perhaps this reflects a decrease in connections to neighborhood information networks, weakened norms and social ties to neighbors-connections which might facilitate knowledge about and help-seeking for such disorders, as well as provide social support to affected children and their families [15].…”

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“…Neighborhoods may affect children's development through a variety of causal mechanisms operating either through social, institutional or biological processes; for extended discussions see Sampson, Morenoff and Gannon-Rowley [12] and Galster [11]. The potential neighborhood social mechanisms relevant for neurodevelopmental outcomes include: neighborhood deprivation [13,14]; social cohesion and control [15]; ethnic mix [16]; violence and social disorder [17]; institutional resources [18]; physical surroundings [19,20]; and exposure to environmental pollutants [6,9,[21][22][23]. These mechanisms may affect health outcomes via biological responses and/or alterations in health and risk behaviors and usage of health facilities.…”

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“…Another substantial body of research has identified associations between children's poorer cognitive outcomes and the low socioeconomic position of their neighborhoods [14,38,[43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. For instance, studies have linked higher numbers of caregiver-reported physical neighborhood hazards [52] and lower levels of neighborhood social support [15] with greater incidence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In a European sample, neighborhood-level socioeconomic deprivation was associated with higher prevalence of autism spectrum disorders with co-occurring intellectual disability [53].…”

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Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood Conditions on Neurodevelopmental Disorders during Childhood

Santiago

Berg

Leroux

2021

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Nearly three out of ten neurodevelopmental disabilities in the United States have been linked to environmental conditions, prompting emerging lines of research examining the role of the neighborhood on children’s developmental outcomes. Utilizing data from a natural experiment in Denver, this study quantifies the impact of exposure to varied neighborhood contexts on the diagnosis of neurodevelopmental disorders over the course of childhood. Our analysis is based upon retrospective child, caregiver, household and neighborhood data derived from the Denver Child Study for a sample of approximately 590 Latino and African American children and youth whose families were quasi-randomly assigned to subsidized housing operated by the Denver (CO) Housing Authority during part of their childhood. We employed binary response models with endogenous explanatory variables, estimated using instrumental variables (IV) probit and average marginal effects to identify predictors of a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosis during childhood. We found that multiple dimensions of neighborhood context—especially neighborhood socioeconomic status, older housing stock, residential instability and prevalence of neurological hazards in the ambient air—strongly and robustly predicted the diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental disorder during childhood.

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“…Published literature suggests a litany of risk factors associated with the etiology of ADHD, ranging from physical and social environmental factors (Perera et al, 2014;Razani et al, 2014) to genetic (Laucht, Hohm, Esser, Schmidt, & Becker, 2007) and dietary factors (Howard et al, 2011). The relationship between sleep and ADHD is of increasing research interest, however certain aspects of this association remain understudied.…”

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Sleep Duration in Relation to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in American Adults

Bogdan

Reeves

2016

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental condition being diagnosed in increasing numbers. While the link between sleep and ADHD is of increasing interest, the relationship between sleep duration and ADHD remains largely uninvestigated in adult populations. We evaluated the association between self-reported sleep duration and ADHD in a cohort of American adults using data from the 2012 National Health Interview Survey (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). Of the 30,858 participants eligible for our analyses, there were 1,122 cases of ADHD. Elevated and diminished sleep durations were both associated with increased odds of reporting ADHD (≤ 6 hr: OR = 1.50, 95% CI 1.19, 1.90; ≥ 9 hr: OR = 1.49, 95% CI 1.26, 1.75) in fully adjusted models. Future prospective studies are necessary to further examine this association in adult patients.

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Neighborhood Characteristics and ADHD

Abstract: Neighborhood social support is a potential area of intervention for children with ADHD and their caregivers. Research challenges and opportunities are discussed.

Cited by 24 publications

References 38 publications

State-of-the-Science Review of Non-Chemical Stressors Found in a Child’s Social Environment

State-of-the-Science Review of Non-Chemical Stressors Found in a Child’s Social Environment

Assessing the Impact of Neighborhood Conditions on Neurodevelopmental Disorders during Childhood

Sleep Duration in Relation to Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in American Adults

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