SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021
Emotional Eating and Weight Status in Adolescents: A Systematic Review.
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- Emotional Eating Interventions for Adults Living with Overweight or Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
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- Exploring the Impact of Emotional Eating in Children: A Narrative Review.Pediatric reports · 2025Review
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- Emotional Eating among College Students in Israel: A Study during Times of War.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Fast food proximity and weight gain in childhood and adolescence: Evidence from Great Britain.Health economics · 2024Article
- Enhancing nutritional knowledge and self-regulation among adolescents: efficacy of a multifaceted food literacy intervention.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- The Association between Personality Factors and Metabolic Parameters among Patients with Non-Alcoholic-Fatty Liver Disease and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus-A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Eating Behavior and Obesity in a Sample of Spanish Schoolchildren.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Psychosocial correlates in patterns of adolescent emotional eating and dietary consumption.PloS one · 2023Article
- Prevalence of Emotional Eating in Groups of Students with Varied Diets and Physical Activity in Poland.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Body Mass and Emotional Eating: Emotional Eater Questionnaire (EEQ) in the Polish Adolescents' COVID-19 Experience (PLACE-19) Study.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Development of a Web-App for the Ecological Momentary Assessment of Dietary Habits among College Students: The HEALTHY-UNICT Project.Nutrients · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite evidence that emotional eating is associated with weight gain in adults, less is known about this association in adolescents. The purpose of the current study was to conduct a systematic review to assess the association between emotional eating and weight status in adolescents. This study also sought to describe existing measures of emotional eating in adolescents and explore weight-loss interventions that assessed emotional eating in relation to weight status in this population.
methodsTwo independent reviewers searched the database PubMed for published or in press peer-reviewed studies that assessed the association between emotional eating and weight status in adolescents aged 12 to 19 years. Studies were excluded from this review if they were not written in the English language, did not include a measure of emotional eating, or were a dissertation study.
resultsA total of 13 studies met full inclusion criteria and were included in the systematic review. Of the six longitudinal studies in the review, only one found a prospective association between emotional eating and weight status. The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire was the most widely used measure of emotional eating in the systematic review (n = 6; 46.2%). The one intervention study included in this review found that baseline emotional eating was not associated with weight outcomes 2 years following gastric bypass surgery in obese Swedish adolescents (13-18 years).
conclusionsWhile there were some inconsistent findings across the studies included in this review, taken as a whole, the results largely do not support an association between emotional eating and elevated weight status or reduced weight loss in adolescents.
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