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Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Stress and negative emotions may impact on appetite, inducing some individuals to eat less and others to eat more. This behavior has been implicated in the onset of bodyweight problems and eating disorders in childhood. The aim of our study is to evaluate factors potentially associated w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9492453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36138389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14192-8 |
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author | Buja, Alessandra Manfredi, Mariagiovanna Zampieri, Chiara Minnicelli, Anil Bolda, Roberta Brocadello, Filippo Gatti, Maura Baldovin, Tatjana Baldo, Vincenzo |
author_facet | Buja, Alessandra Manfredi, Mariagiovanna Zampieri, Chiara Minnicelli, Anil Bolda, Roberta Brocadello, Filippo Gatti, Maura Baldovin, Tatjana Baldo, Vincenzo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Stress and negative emotions may impact on appetite, inducing some individuals to eat less and others to eat more. This behavior has been implicated in the onset of bodyweight problems and eating disorders in childhood. The aim of our study is to evaluate factors potentially associated with emotional eating in children. METHODS: The present cross-sectional study derives from a survey conducted in 2021 on 8–9 years old children attending 11 primary schools. A questionnaire was administered that contained multiple-choice items relating to the children and their mothers, and touching on all the factors thought to be associated with emotional eating as behavioral traits or adherence to Mediterranean diet. A multivariable logistic regression was performed to test the association. RESULTS: Emotional undereating was positively associated with emotional symptoms (OR 1.72; 95% CI 1.11–2.67); emotional overeating was positively associated with both emotional symptoms (OR 2.01; 95% CI 1.29–3.13) and hyperactivity (OR 2.80; 95% CI 1.59–4.92), and inversely associated with peer problems (OR 0.50; 95% CI 0.25–0.99). Emotional undereating was also positively associated with the number of siblings (OR 1.50; 95% CI 1.03–2.18), and inversely associated with a good adherence to the Mediterranean diet (OR 0.25; 95% CI 0.08–0.84). CONCLUSIONS: The study found children’s emotional eating associated with both dietary patterns and behavioral traits (in particular emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and peer problems). It could be useful to improve parents’ awareness so that they can anticipate and pay more attention to this issue. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet should also be reinforced, by means of health promotion interventions at school, for example. |
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spelling | pubmed-94924532022-09-22 Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study Buja, Alessandra Manfredi, Mariagiovanna Zampieri, Chiara Minnicelli, Anil Bolda, Roberta Brocadello, Filippo Gatti, Maura Baldovin, Tatjana Baldo, Vincenzo BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: Stress and negative emotions may impact on appetite, inducing some individuals to eat less and others to eat more. This behavior has been implicated in the onset of bodyweight problems and eating disorders in childhood. The aim of our study is to evaluate factors potentially associated with emotional eating in children. METHODS: The present cross-sectional study derives from a survey conducted in 2021 on 8–9 years old children attending 11 primary schools. A questionnaire was administered that contained multiple-choice items relating to the children and their mothers, and touching on all the factors thought to be associated with emotional eating as behavioral traits or adherence to Mediterranean diet. A multivariable logistic regression was performed to test the association. RESULTS: Emotional undereating was positively associated with emotional symptoms (OR 1.72; 95% CI 1.11–2.67); emotional overeating was positively associated with both emotional symptoms (OR 2.01; 95% CI 1.29–3.13) and hyperactivity (OR 2.80; 95% CI 1.59–4.92), and inversely associated with peer problems (OR 0.50; 95% CI 0.25–0.99). Emotional undereating was also positively associated with the number of siblings (OR 1.50; 95% CI 1.03–2.18), and inversely associated with a good adherence to the Mediterranean diet (OR 0.25; 95% CI 0.08–0.84). CONCLUSIONS: The study found children’s emotional eating associated with both dietary patterns and behavioral traits (in particular emotional symptoms, hyperactivity and peer problems). It could be useful to improve parents’ awareness so that they can anticipate and pay more attention to this issue. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet should also be reinforced, by means of health promotion interventions at school, for example. BioMed Central 2022-09-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9492453/ /pubmed/36138389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14192-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Buja, Alessandra Manfredi, Mariagiovanna Zampieri, Chiara Minnicelli, Anil Bolda, Roberta Brocadello, Filippo Gatti, Maura Baldovin, Tatjana Baldo, Vincenzo Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study |
title | Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study |
title_full | Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study |
title_short | Is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and Mediterranean diet in children? A cross-sectional study |
title_sort | is emotional eating associated with behavioral traits and mediterranean diet in children? a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9492453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36138389 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14192-8 |
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