Food Insecurity Is Associated With Dysfunctional Eating Behaviors Among Adults in Puerto Rico.

Autor: Xu W; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA., López-Cepero A; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA., O'Neill HJ; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA., Plym A; Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA., Austin SB; Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA., Mattei J; Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Electronic address: jmattei@hsph.harvard.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of nutrition education and behavior [J Nutr Educ Behav] 2023 Sep; Vol. 55 (9), pp. 644-650. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 01.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2023.05.255
Abstrakt: Objective: To examine the association between food insecurity and dysfunctional eating behaviors among adults in Puerto Rico.
Methods: Data from 865 participants were obtained from baseline interviews from the Puerto Rico Observational Study of Psychosocial, Environmental, and Chronic Disease Trends (PROSPECT) cohort. The association between food insecurity and emotional eating (EE) and uncontrolled eating (UE) (categorized as no/moderate/high) was examined using multinomial logistic models. Potential mediation by perceived stress was explored.
Results: The prevalence of food insecurity was 20.3%. Compared with adults with food security, adults with food insecurity had higher odds of both moderate EE (odds ratio [OR], 1.91; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.18-3.09) and high EE (OR, 2.85; 95% CI, 1.75-4.64), and both moderate UE (OR, 1.78; 95% CI, 0.91-3.50) and high UE (OR, 3.28; 95% CI, 1.70-6.33). Perceived stress slightly attenuated these associations.
Conclusions and Implications: Food insecurity was associated with a higher likelihood of engaging in dysfunctional eating behaviors. Interventions alleviating food insecurity or stress might help adults sustain healthy eating behaviors.
(Copyright © 2023 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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