Emotional overeating affected nine in ten female students during the COVID-19 university closure: A cross-sectional study in France.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the proportion of female university students reporting overeating (EO) in response to emotions during the COVID-19 university closures, and to investigate social and psychological factors associated with this response to stress.

Design

Online survey gathered sociodemographic data, alcohol/drugs use disorders, boredom proneness and impulsivity using validated questionnaires, and EO using the Emotional Overeating Questionnaire (EOQ) assessing eating in response to six emotions (anxiety, sadness, loneliness, anger, fatigue, happiness), whose structure remains to be determined.

Participants

Sample of 302 female students from Rennes University, France.

Main outcome measure

Frequencies of emotional overeating.

Analysis

The frequency of e

SUBMITTER: Constant A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10470954 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature