ArticleAppetite2018
Food addiction and substance addiction in women: Common clinical characteristics.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.
- Emotion regulation in substance use disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2023Pooled it
- Food addiction and psychiatric comorbidities: a review of current evidence.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Pooled it
- Neuronal inhibitory mechanisms in overweight/obesity and food/eating addiction: The role of frontal brain coherence, dysregulated eating, and depressive symptoms.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Food addiction and its associations with mental and physical health comorbidities and with quality of life in the general population.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The Effect of Childhood Experiences, Picky Eating, and Hedonic Hunger on Eating Addiction in University Students: Analyzed by Machine Learning Approach.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Exploring Food Addiction Across Several Behavioral Addictions: Analysis of Clinical Relevance.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Binge-type eating disorders and ultra-processed food addiction: phenomenology, pathophysiology and treatment implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Co-occurrence of food addiction, obesity, problematic substance use, and parental history of problematic alcohol use.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Food addiction and binge eating disorder are linked to shared and unique deficits in emotion regulation among female seeking bariatric surgery.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Early life influences on the development of food addiction in college attending young adults.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- Factors increasing the risk for food addiction in Ecuadorian students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Association of Food Insecurity and Food Addiction Symptoms: A Secondary Analysis of Two Samples of Low-Income Female Adults.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2022Observational
- Clinical Features of Gambling Disorder Patients with and Without Food Addiction: Gender-Related Considerations.Journal of gambling studies · 2022Article
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- Food addiction and lifetime alcohol and illicit drugs use in specific eating disorders.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
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- Cumulative lifetime stress exposure predicts greater impulsivity and addictive behaviors.Journal of health psychology · 2021Article
- Staff-perceived barriers to nutrition intervention in substance use disorder treatment.Public health nutrition · 2021Article
- Investigating Sex Differences in Rates and Correlates of Food Addiction Status in Women and Men with PTSD.Nutrients · 2021Article
- The Impact of Retrospective Childhood Maltreatment on Eating Disorders as Mediated by Food Addiction: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2020Article
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Abstract
Food addiction is characterized by poorly controlled intake of highly-palatable, calorically-dense, foods. While previous studies indicate that risk factors for food addiction are similar to substance use disorders (SUD), these studies have looked at food addiction and SUD in independent samples, limiting the ability to directly compare food addiction to SUD. The present study was conducted to assess rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, childhood and adult trauma exposure, as well as presence and severity of emotion dysregulation, in a sample of women (N = 229) who either meet criteria for no addiction, food addiction only or SUD only. The prevalence of food addiction was 18.3% and the prevalence of SUD was 30.6% in this sample. Women with food addiction and women with SUD endorsed more depression and PTSD symptoms when compared with individuals with no addiction. Individuals with food addiction and SUD had higher total emotion dysregulation scores, specifically with difficulties in goal directed behaviors, non-acceptance of emotional responses, impulse control, limited access to emotion regulation strategies, and lack of emotional clarity, when compared to individuals with no addiction (all p's < 0.05). There were no differences in PTSD and depression symptoms and emotion dysregulation scores between food addiction and SUD groups (all p > 0.05). However, women with SUD endorsed higher levels of total childhood (p < 0.01) and adulthood trauma (p < 0.01) as compared with women with no addiction or food addiction. These results suggest that women with food addiction and those with SUD share similar psychological characteristics and risk factors, with the exception of trauma histories. These findings have implications for the detection of risk for and treatment of these disorders.
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