COVID-19 and changes in young adults' weight concerns.

Autor: Haas M; Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA., Ackerman RA; School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA., Kouros CD; Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA., Papp LM; Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1300 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA. papp@wisc.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of behavioral medicine [J Behav Med] 2024 Aug; Vol. 47 (4), pp. 743-750. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 16.
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-024-00481-7
Abstrakt: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced fundamental challenges to nearly all aspects of college students' lives, yet changes in key domains of their health, including weight concerns, remain untested. The current study utilized a longitudinal project comprised of 355 young-adult college students (M age =19.5, 66.8% female, 33.2% male) oversampled for recent substance use behavior. Participants completed multiple assessments (mode = 5) from September 2017 to September 2021. Piecewise growth-curve models tested whether COVID-19 onset was associated with changes in the trajectories of young adults' weight concerns. Analyses also examined participants' sex as a moderator of these trajectories. On average, participants reported a significant increase in weight concern levels around the start of COVID-19, although weight concern slopes were not significantly different before and after COVID-19. Additionally, moderation analyses showed that females (but not males) had a significant increase in weight concern levels after COVID-19 onset.
(© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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