ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2022
Nutritional behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: the association of fear and sleep quality with emotional eating.
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- Feeding the feelings: gender differences in emotional eating during COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Relationship between Mental Health and Emotional Eating during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
- Will Public Health Emergencies Affect Compensatory Consumption Behavior? Evidence from Emotional Eating Perspective.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Prevalence and factors associated with fear of COVID-19 in military personnel during the second epidemic wave in Peru.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The mediating role of sleep quality in the relationship between orthorexia nervosa and fear of COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2023Observational
- Are depression, resilience and fear of COVID-19 related to eating behavior and nutrition status of university students?Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) · 2023Article
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- Healthcare workers' self-regulatory eating behaviours are associated with being stress-free during the Covid-19 lockdown in Singapore.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeEven though it is known that fear and poor sleep quality trigger emotional eating, whether fear and poor sleep quality are associated with emotional eating during the COVID-19 pandemic is not clear. This study aimed to evaluate the association of fear of COVID-19, sleep quality, and some sociodemographic characteristics with emotional eating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
methodThis cross-sectional descriptive study was completed with 495 participants in Turkey. The participants filled out a questionnaire that asked about sociodemographic characteristics, fear of COVID-19, nutritional behaviors, sleep quality, and self-reported weight and height through email or social media.
resultsThe fear of COVID-19 score (β: 0.090, p < 0.05) and sleep quality score (β: 0.289, p < 0.001) were associated with the emotional eating score at the rate of 0.8% and 8.3%, respectively. The association of fear of COVID-19 with emotional eating disappeared when combined with various factors. The collective association of all factors, fear of COVID-19 (β: 0.042, p > 0.05), sleep quality (β: 0.246, p < 0.001), BMI (β: 0.275, p < 0.001), age (β: - 0.259, p < 0.001) and gender (β: - 0.169, p < 0.001) were associated with the emotional eating score at the rate of 18.3%.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that fear of COVID-19, sleep quality, BMI, age, and gender were associated with emotional eating during the pandemic. We hope that this study will help in the development of guidelines and strategies through understanding the factors associated with nutritional behavior during the pandemic period. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, cross-sectional descriptive study.
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