جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « eating behaviors » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

Children with chronic obesity suffer from more unbalanced eating behaviors. For this reason, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the play therapy package based on Hall and Fong's temporal self-regulation theory on their eating behaviors.

Methods and Materials:

 This research was quantitative and semi-experimental type and was implemented in the form of a pre-test, post-test design with a control group and a 2-month follow-up period. Also, its statistical population was all the parent-child pairs referred to Iranian Health Centers-Isfahan City, where, among them, 45 pairs by convenience sampling method were selected and randomly into two groups of experimental (22 pairs), and control (23 pairs), were assigned. To collect data, the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire was used, and along with providing 11 sessions of 45-minute play therapy package training to the experimental group, the control group did not receive any intervention. In the end, data analysis by SPSS-29 software and statistical methods of Chi-square and covariance analysis at significant level (p<0.05), was done.

According to the result of the chi-square test, no significant difference between the 2 groups in terms of parents' age and education; and children's age, gender, birth rank, number of siblings, and education was observed. Also, the results of covariance analysis showed that there were significant changes (p<0.05) in the eating behaviors of children in the experimental group compared to children in the control group.

The findings indicate the positive effect of the play therapy package used in the research on the adjustment of eating behaviors of children with chronic obesity. Therefore, it could be used to help treat children with chronic obesity.

To investigate the structural relationships between chronic pain and body mass index mediated by eating behaviors, pain-related fear, anxiety sensitivity, and pain catastrophizing.

The research method was structural equation modeling and the statistical population of men and women with chronic pain referred to the orthopedic, physiotherapy, neurology wards of Al-Ghadir Hospital and orthopedic specialists of Farahbakhsh clinics in Tehran in spring, summer and autumn of 2022, of which 400 they were selected by purposive sampling method and participated in the research. Data were used to calculate participants' body mass index and the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (Van Strien, Frijters, Bergers & Defares, 1986), Chronic Pain (Vankorff et al, 1990), Pain Anxiety Symptom Scale (Pain-Related Fear) (McCracken & Dhingra, 2002), Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaire (Patterson and Reese, 1992) and Pain Catastrophic Scale (Sullivan, Bishop, & Pivik, 1995) were collected and analyzed using structural equation modeling in Amos21 software.

The results showed that the model has a good fit with the observed data (df2c <3, GFI, AGFI and CFI> 0.90 and RMSEA <0.08). Chronic pain, pain-related fear, anxiety sensitivity, catastrophic pain, and eating behaviors can explain 29.6% of the variance in body mass index. 55.2% of the variance of eating behaviors is explained by chronic pain, pain-related fear, anxiety sensitivity, and catastrophic pain.

To prevent and treat obesity in people with pain, the variables of pain-related fear, anxiety sensitivity, catastrophic pain and eating behaviors should be targeted.

One of the most important traumatic problems among female students is unhealthy behaviors and attitudes related to eating that can increase tension in their normal relationships. Therefore, the present study aims to predict the unhealthy eating behaviors and attitudes based on the emotion dyregulation and ineffective reactions in female students aged 14 to 20 in Kermanshah city.

 The present study was cross-sectional. The target population included all female students aged 14-20 years old in Kermanshah in 2018, out of whom 150 were selected through convenient sampling method. The research tools included: eating feedback questionnaire, inefficient reactions questionnaire, and emotion deregulation questionnaire. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation coefficient, multivariate regression analysis, and Focal correlation were used. Data were finally analyzed by SPSS-22.

 The results showed that ineffective reactions and emotional deregulation had a significant effect on unhealthy eating behaviors and attitudes (P<0.001). In addition, the results of the analysis indicated that predictive variables could explain 27 percent of the changes related to unhealthy eating behaviors and attitudes.

The results of this study showed that unhealthy eating behaviors and attitudes in adolescent girls could challenge the mental and physical health of this group, so it can be suggested that therapists pay more attention to this issue.

A characteristic that affects the quality of life in the general population is eating behaviors. Eating behaviors include restrained eating, eating at night, overeating, strict diets, worrying about body shape and weight, and emotional eating. Factors affecting eating behaviors consist of variables, like attachment styles. Attachment is a biopsychosocial phenomenon that involves social functioning, coping, stress response, psychological wellbeing, health behavior, and morbidity, i.e., why it is so important in psychological research. Research has suggested that studentschr('39') eating behaviors are among the main challenges and could be influenced by some psychological characteristics. The present study aimed to develop a structural model of eating behaviors based on attachment styles concerning self–compassion and loneliness in students.

This was descriptive–correlational research in terms of data collection method and we employed structural equation modeling. The statistical population of this study included all BA and MA students in Tehran City, Iran (age range: 18–40 y) in the fields of humanities, technical engineering, and art in the second semester of the 2019–2020 academic year. The study sample consisted of 522 students; after removing the distorted questionnaires, we analyzed a total of 481 responses. Our sample was randomly selected from the students of Islamic Azad and Government universities. We included Islamic Azad University of Tehran; Science and Research as well as Central Tehran branches. Besides, the included public universities were Allameh Tabatabai, Amirkabir, Science and Technology, and the University of Tehran. A randomized multistage cluster sampling method was employed in this study. Furthermore, the applied research tools included The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) (van Strien et al., 1986), the Adult Attachment Questionnaire (Simpson, 1990), the Self–Compassion Scale–Short Form (SCS–SF) (Raes et al., 2011), and the Social–Emotion Loneliness Scale for Adults–Short Form (DiTommaso et al., 2003). To analyze the obtained data, SPSS and AMOS as well as structural model methods were used.

The Pearson correlation analysis results suggested a direct and significant correlation between avoidant attachment style and self–compassion, and emotional eating behaviors (p=0.007). There was a direct and significant correlation between self–compassion and external eating (p=0.006). There also existed an inverse relationship between ambivalent and avoidant attachment styles, and loneliness, as well as a significant direct relationship with self–compassion (p=0.001). Besides, there was a direct and significant relationship between self–compassion and emotional eating and external eating (p=0.004). Findings also revealed that secure attachment (p=0.006, β=0.161) and avoidant attachment (p<0.001, β=–0.249) styles, with the mediating role of loneliness, could explain eating behaviors; however, the effect of ambivalent attachment style (p=0.082, β=–0.002) was not significant in this regard. Additionally, the effect of avoidant attachment style on eating behaviors, with the mediating role of self–compassion, was significant (p=0.009, β=–0.177); however, the impacts of secure (p=0.321, β=–0.125) and ambivalent (p=0.224, β=0.143) attachment styles were not significant in this respect. This structural model provided an appropriate fit with the mentioned variables (p≥0.001); Chi–squared=163.325, df=75, X2/df=2.178, RMSEA=0.050, CFI=0.925, NFI=0.911, and GFI=0.957.

Enjoying a safe attachment style and self–compassion, as well as improving insecure attachment styles and loneliness could improve the investigated studentschr('39') eating behaviors. Besides, the obtained data indicated that attachment styles, with the mediating roles of loneliness and compassion, could be a desirable model to explain eating behaviors.

The purpose of this study was to develop a structural model of eating behaviors based on emotional adjustment and attachment styles with the Mediating Role of feelings of loneliness in students.

The research method is correlation using structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the study consisted of all students of Tehran city in the academic year 97-98, out of which 481 students were selected by stage cluster sampling. Research instruments included Eating behaviors by van Strain et al. (1986), attachment styles Simpson (1990), emotional adjustment Robio et al. (2004), and feelings of loneliness Di Tomasso et al. (2004), all of which had acceptable validity and reliability.  SPSS-V23 and Amos-22 software were used for data analysis.

The results showed that. Variables of dual-segregation and avoidance attachment styles have the power to explain eating behaviors in students. But a secure attachment style does not have the power to explain eating behaviors.

The results also show that the indirect effect of secure attachment style and avoidant attachment style are significant but the indirect effect of two-way attachment style is not significant which means that feeling alone in the relationship between the two attachment style variables Misbehavior and eating behaviors do not play a mediating role. And so eating behaviors seem to be influenced by various factors such as emotional adjustment and attachment styles and need to be thoroughly investigated in different eating disorders.