Socio-demographic, dietary, exercise, and mental health factors associated with food addiction symptoms in university students
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: INTRODUCTION: Food addiction is characterized by repeated and uncontrolled consumption of food, usually ultra-processed foods. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of sociodemographic, health, lifestyle, and dietary factors on food addiction symptoms. METHODS: A total of 512 university students (both sexes, aged between 18 and 35 years) provided information on completion that included the variables include family income, physical activity, psychiatric and physical disorders, and alcohol, drug, and tobacco use. They also shared dietary information such as main meal types and whether they added salt to food. Food addiction symptoms were assessed using the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0. We used a multiple linear regression model was used to investigate predicted changes in the number of food addiction symptoms. RESULTS: adjusted of 0.167 (and p < 0.001). Female sex (B = 0.506; p = < 0.,0401), low family income (from low to moderate: B = -0.803, p = 0.,002; and from low to high: B = -0.732, p = 0.024), physical (p = 0,046) and psychiatric disorders (B = 1.062, p < = 0.001,08), practice of physical activity (B = -0.682, p = 0.009) and be in current dieting (B = 1.498, p < 0.001) predicted morea use of tobacco and derivatives (p = 0,020) food addiction symptoms. (p = 0,018) (p = 0,025) consumes less than five meals a day (p < 0,001). CONCLUSION: Food addiction symptoms were found to be a multifactorial phenomenon, associated with sociodemographic and economic status, diet, exercise, and mental health. The limitations of this study of this study includewere its cross-sectional design, lack ofno dietary consumption data, sample convenience sampling-based, self-selection bias, and simplification ed collection of dietary concerns.
Source: Psicologia Reflexão e Crítica
Authors: Iasmim Cristiane de Alcântara, Bruna Eugênia Ferreira Mota, Agatha Kelly da Luz Castro, Gabriela Guerra Leal Souza
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,590
Funders: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Fundação Amparo e Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa
OpenAlex ID: W4415683253