Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Improved Health-related Quality of Life

• A Pilot Randomized Control Trial With the Probiotic Strain Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) in ADHD: Children and Adolescents Report Better Health-Related Quality of Life

  • 2020-03-17
  • RCT · n = 35
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry 11
  • • H. Kumperščak
    • A. Gricar
    • I. Ülen
    • D. Mičetić-Turk

  • PubMed: 32256407
  • DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00181

  2 Insights on

  • Improved Health-related Quality of Life

  • High evidence

  There was a significant improvement in the PedsQL Child Self-Report Total Score after 3 months of treatment in the probiotic (p = 0.021, d = 0.53), whereas there was no significant improvement in the placebo group (p = 0.563, d = 0.04).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes