ArticleComprehensive psychiatry2017
Prevalence and psychosocial correlates of food addiction in persons with obesity seeking weight reduction.
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- Systematic Review of Food Addiction as Measured with the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for the Food Addiction Construct.Current neuropharmacology · 2019Pooled it
- A randomized controlled trial of lorcaserin and lifestyle counselling for weight loss maintenance: changes in emotion- and stress-related eating, food cravings and appetite.Clinical obesity · 2018Trial
- Examining the association between food addiction, stress, and social competence.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Food Addiction Is Strongly Associated With Psychopathology and Reduced Psychological Well-Being Among Adults Irrespective of BMI.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- TOWARD: a metabolic health intervention that improves food addiction and binge eating symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Food addiction and the physical and mental health status of adults with overweight and obesity.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Correlates of Food Addiction and Eating Behaviours in Patients with Morbid Obesity.Obesity facts · 2023Article
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- Clinical Considerations of Ultra-processed Food Addiction Across Weight Classes: an Eating Disorder Treatment and Care Perspective.Current addiction reports · 2022Review
- Converging vulnerability factors for compulsive food and drug use.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- A narrative review of highly processed food addiction across the lifespan.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2021Article
- Persian Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0: Psychometric Analysis and Setting Cutoff Point for the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-Reduced.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
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- The Relationship of Food Addiction With Other Eating Pathologies and Impulsivity: A Case-Control Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Brain-gut-microbiome interactions in obesity and food addiction.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2020Review
- Measurement, prevalence, and psychological risk factors associated with addictive food consumption: Development of a new food addiction scale and evidence from a national largescale sample.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2020Article
- Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Remission of Food Addiction Does Not Induce Cross-Addiction after Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass: A Prospective Cohort Study.Obesity facts · 2020Article
- The Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0: Validation Among Non-Clinical and Clinical French-Speaking Samples and Comparison With the Full Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
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introductionFood addiction is a controversial concept. The potential influence of food addiction on patients' psychosocial functioning and well-being has not been well established. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between psychosocial functioning (depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life [HRQOL]) and food addiction as measured by the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS). We also explored whether food addiction contributed additional variance in explaining psychosocial functioning, beyond demographic and clinical factors (e.g., binge eating).
methodsThe sample included 178 participants (mean age=44.2±11.2years; BMI=40.9±5.9kg/m
resultsTwelve (6.7%) participants met criteria for food addiction, with 4 (33.3%) of these participants having co-occurring binge eating disorder. After adjusting for covariates, the number of food addiction symptoms accounted for 6.5% to 16.3% of additional variance in general HRQOL, 5.0% to 21.5% in weight-related HRQOL, and 19.1% in symptoms of depression.
conclusionsIn this treatment-seeking sample of participants, we found a low prevalence of food addiction, suggesting that addictive-like eating is unlikely to be a causal mechanism for most people with obesity. However, individuals who met criteria for food addiction had reduced psychosocial functioning compared to those who did not meet criteria. Individuals with addictive-like eating may require additional psychosocial support.
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