Dimensions of sleep quality are related to objectively measured eating behaviors among children at high familial risk for obesity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether dimensions of sleep quality were associated with homeostatic and hedonic eating behaviors among children with healthy weight (BMI-for-age < 90%) but varying maternal weight status.

Methods

A total of 77 children (mean [SD], age: 7.4 [0.6] years; BMI z score: -0.10 [0.7]) with healthy weight and high (n = 32) or low (n = 45) familial obesity risk based on maternal weight status were served an ad libitum meal (homeostatic eating) followed by palatable snacks to assess eating in the absence of hunger (EAH; hedonic eating). Habitual sleep quality was quantified from seven nights of wrist actigraphy. Partial correlations, adjusted for child energy needs, pre-meal hunger, food liking, and socioeconomic status, evaluated assoc

SUBMITTER: Zuraikat FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10192096 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature