Highlights
- •Individuals with severe mental disorder exhibit elevated emotional eating behaviors.
- •In individuals with severe mental disorder, emotional eating behavior is correlated with being middle-aged and being female.
- •In individuals with severe mental disorder, emotional eating behavior is correlated with night eating behavior.
Abstract
Emotional eating behavior is commonly accompanied by negative emotions in individuals
with a severe mental disorder in community. This descriptive study has aimed to identify
emotional eating behavior and the factors acting on emotional eating behavior and
to investigate the relationship of uncontrolled eating and cognitive restriction scores
with emotional eating behavior in individuals with a severe mental disorder followed
up in community mental health centers (CMHC). The study included 130 patients with
a severe mental disorder. The Emotional Eater Questionnaire (EEQ) and the Three-Factor
Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-R21) were used for data collection. The chi-square significance
test and correlation analyses were used for determining the correlation of emotional
eating behavior scores across independent variables. The prevalence of emotional eating
behavior was 49.22% among individuals with a severe mental disorder. The mean EEQ
score of the individuals was 11.74 ± 7.42. Emotional eating behavior was observed
in 56.7% of individuals at ages from 35 to 49 years, in 62.5% of women, in 58.6% of
individuals with a history of dieting, and in 61.2% of individuals with night eating
behavior. This study has shown that emotional eating behavior can occur in individuals
with a severe mental disorder independent of the diagnosis, use of antipsychotic medications,
body mass index (BMI), physical exercise, and eating behavior. It was observed that
emotional eating behavior was correlated with being middle-aged, being female, and
night eating behavior.
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: October 13, 2020
Accepted:
October 4,
2020
Received in revised form:
August 23,
2020
Received:
May 22,
2020
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