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ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2018

Causes of Emotional Eating and Matched Treatment of Obesity.

Tatjana van Strien

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Review in Current diabetes reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07559552 (The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and a Mobile App on Emotional Eating, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Flexibility in Overweight Individuals), which is not on this map. Cited by 205 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07559552 nanot yet recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and a Mobile App on Emotional Eating, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Flexibility in Overweight Individuals

TypeinterventionalSponsorSaglik Bilimleri UniversitesiRan2026 to 2026Enrolled78ConditionsEmotional Eating, Emotion Regulation, Overweight, Psychological FlexibilityArmsACT-Based Group Therapy, ACT-Based Mobile Application
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

205 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Biopsychosocial and Environmental Factors That Impact Brain-Gut-Microbiome Interactions in Obesity.Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association · 2026
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  7. Attachment, Feeding Practices, Family Routines and Childhood Obesity: A Systematic Review of the Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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145 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Tatjana van StrienBehavioural Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. t.vanstrien@psych.ru.nl.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of the reviewEating in response to negative emotions (EE) may be an explanatory factor of the weight regain of many dieters. This narrative review presents evidence on possible causes of EE and the association of EE with depression and obesity and discusses implications of these findings for the treatment of obesity. RECENT

findingsPossible causes of EE are high dietary restraint, poor interoceptive awareness, alexithymia, emotion dysregulation and a reversed hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) stress axis. EE may be the outcome of inadequate parenting or depressive feelings in interaction with genetic susceptibility. There is also robust evidence that EE is a mediator between depression and obesity. The association of EE with depression and poor emotion regulation skills suggests that the treatment of obese people with high EE should not focus on calorie-restricted diets but on emotion regulation skills. The DEBQ (Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire) enables such a matched treatment of obesity.

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EmotionsDepressionEatingFeeding BehaviorHumansObesitySurveys and QuestionnairesCausesDEBQDepressionEmotional eatingMatched treatmentObesity

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PMID29696418
PMCPMC5918520

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