جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « food addiction » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

Consumption of some foods can include addictive potentials. Hypertension and excessive consumption of these foods are associated with addictive eating behaviors. The present study investigated prevalence of food addiction and its components in adults with and without hypertension.

In this study, 96 individuals with and without hypertension (n = 48 in each group) referring to the medical training centers of Abadan University of Medical Sciences, 2021, were participated using simple random sampling method. Weight and height were measured and body mass index (BMI) was calculated. Food addiction and its components were assessed using Yale food addiction questionnaire 2.0. Descriptive statistics and independent sample T-test were used for data analysis and logistic regression model was used to assess risks of food addiction and its components.

The food addiction score and its components were significantly higher in participants with hypertension, compared to the control group (p ≤ 0.001). Hypertensive participants had a 6.2-time higher risk of food addiction, compared to non-hypertensive ones.

This study showed that participants with hypertension had higher scores of food addiction and its components, compared to non-hypertensive participants. Furthermore, risks of food addiction increased in participants with hypertension, compared to non-hypertensive ones.

Many obese people have different psychological symptoms such as anxiety, depression, emotional regulation problems, etc., food addiction is also another psychological problem associated with obesity. In this research, for the first time, we investigated the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) treatment on anxiety, depression, difficulty in emotional regulation, and food addiction in obese people.

In this clinical trial, 40 obese women were selected from urban health centers in Kashan, 2018. They were recruited using purposive convenience sampling. They were then randomly divided into an intervention group (MBSR, n=20) or a control group (educational session without any treatment, n=20). The MBSR was implemented according to the Kabat Ziin protocol during weekly sessions of 90-minute for eight weeks. The participants were evaluated at pre-test, post-test and three-month follow-up using the anxiety, stress, depression scale (DASS-21), difficulty in emotion regulation scale (DERS), and the Yale food addiction scale (YFAS). Data analysis was performed applying repeated measures ANOVA in SPSS16.

The intervention group was found with a significant reduction in the levels of anxiety (P<0.01), depression (P<0.000), difficulty in emotional regulation (P=0.02), and severity of food addiction (P=0.003) compared to the control group at post-test. At follow-up, we observed significant reduction in the levels of anxiety, depression, and food addiction (P=0.003), but emotion regulation did not show a significant reduction compared to the control group (P>0.05).

Mindfulness-based stress reduction treatment could be considered as a part of comprehensive medical care for obese people.

 Difficulty in emotional regulation is an important component in the pathology of different types of addiction and its evaluation can be helpful in understanding and treating these difficulties. The purpose of this study is to evaluate emotional regulation in people with opioid dependence (heroin and opium), food addiction, and internet addiction compared to normal people.

 This is a causal- comparative study. Participants were 120 eligible male addicts selected using a purposive sampling method and divided into four groups of 30 including drug addiction, food addiction, internet addiction, and control. Semi-structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis I disorders, Yale Food Addiction Scale, and Young’s Internet Addiction Test were used to diagnose the addictions. Then the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) was completed. Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was used to analyze the collected data.

 Overall DERS score and the score of its subscales were higher in all three addiction groups compared to the control group, and this difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). There was no significant difference between the three addiction groups in subscales of “unwillingness to accept certain emotional responses” and “difficulty engaging in goal-directed behavior”, but a significant difference between the three addiction groups was observed in subscales of “difficulty controlling impulse”, “lack of emotional awareness”, “lack of access to strategies”, “lack of emotional clarity”, and overall DERS score (P<0.05).

 Men with opioid dependence, internet addiction and food addiction have more difficulties in emotional regulation compared to their normal peers. Emotional regulation ability in men with internet addiction is greater than in those with food and opioid addictions.

 Food addiction is a common mental disorder that can cause several problems in the physical health, psychological function and life quality. The aim of this study was to develop and validate the Persian version of Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) on people with food addiction.

 In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 98 people with food addiction referred to the Novin Food Center in Isfahan, Iran and 67 healthy people were participated in this study who were selected using convenience sampling technique from February to May 2018. Data collection tools were a demographic form and 25-item YFAS. Collected data were analyzed in AMOS v.18 and SPSS v.24.

 The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the model had a good fit and hence, the Persian YFAS had good construct validity. According to the results of ANOVA, there was a significant difference between the study groups in terms of the YFAS subscales (p>0.05). The coefficients of Cronbach’s alpha and Guttman split-half were higher than 0.7 in all subscales except for the withdrawal subscale.

 The Persian version of YFAS had good reliability and validity, and can be used in evaluating food addiction for clinical and research purposes.