Prevalence of food addiction and association with stress, sleep quality and chronotype: A cross-sectional survey among university students
Clinical Nutrition Mar 06, 2019
Najem J, et al. – Researchers identified food addiction (FA) prevalence among university students (n=644), and examined the relationships between FA, stress, sleep quality, and chronotype in this study. They issued a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey to students from eight major Lebanese universities. All participants completed the following standardized and validated self-administered questionnaires in addition to sociodemographic data: Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI). The prevalence of FA was 10.1% (95% CI: 7.8% to 12.4%). In total, 56.5% of all the participants had poor sleep quality, while 81.2% of participants with FA had poor sleep quality (compared with 57.2% of participants without FA). Upon multivariate analysis, age, smoking status, BMI, PSS, and PSQI remained significantly associated with continuous YFAS score. Based on the study findings, the authors noted the importance of identifying and providing assistance to individuals with FA given its frequency among youth, association with higher BMI and smoking, and coexistence with other neuropsychiatric problems—which can have serious health implications.
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