Journal article
The Association Between Food Addiction and Weight Status in School-Age Children and Adolescents
Frontiers in psychiatry, v 13, pp 824234-824234
2022
PMID: 35615452
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Abstract
The association between food addiction (FA) and weight status in children and adolescents remains poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate the association between FA and weight status using the validated Chinese version of the dimensional Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children 2.0 (dYFAS-C 2.0).
Participants were enrolled from clinic visitors for regular physical check in a children's hospital. The dYFAS-C 2.0 was translated into Chinese and validated using reliability and validity tests. The participants' body mass index
score (BMIZ) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) were used to characterize weight status. The FA severity was assessed using the translated dYFAS-C 2.0.
Among the 903 children and adolescents enrolled, 426 (47.2%) completed the survey [277 (65%) females and 149 (35%) males]. The Cronbach α of translated dYFAS-C 2.0 was 0.934, and confirmatory factor analysis indicated an acceptable model fit. FA correlated positively with BMIZ and WHtR in the whole sample after adjusting for the effect of gender (
< 0.001). Further analyses showed that the correlation remained significant in participants with BMIZ > 1 (
= 0.006) but not in those with BMIZ ≤ 1 (
= 0.220). However, the correlations between FA and WHtR were statistically significant in both participants with or without abdominal obesity (
< 0.05). The FA could explain 12.1 and 15.8% of variance in BMIZ and WHtR, respectively. The corresponding cutoff points of FA for excessive weight risk were 0.7 (BMIZ) and 0.4 (WHtR).
The dYFAS-C 2.0 has good reliability and validity in the Chinese population. FA is associated with weight status characterized by BMIZ and WHtR, especially in participants with BMIZ > 1 and in those with abdominal obesity.
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- Title
- The Association Between Food Addiction and Weight Status in School-Age Children and Adolescents
- Creators
- Dan Wang - Zhejiang UniversityKe Huang - Zhejiang UniversityErica Schulte - Drexel UniversityWanying Zhou - University of CambridgeHuiwen Li - Zhejiang UniversityYuzheng Hu - Zhejiang UniversityJunfen Fu - Zhejiang University
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in psychiatry, v 13, pp 824234-824234
- Publisher
- Frontiers
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Center for Weight, Eating and Lifestyle Science (WELL) [Historical]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000804958400001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85130754152
- Other Identifier
- 991019169632104721
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