Risk of severe obesity development: Examining the role of psychological well-being related measures and sociodemographic factors in two longitudinal UK cohort studies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the prospective association between psychological well-being related measures and severe obesity development in young and middle-aged UK adults.

Design

A longitudinal analysis of two cohort studies.

Methods

We used data from the 1958 National Child Development Study (NCDS) and the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS) to examine the association between baseline psychological well-being related measures (depressive symptoms, life satisfaction and self-efficacy) and severe obesity development (defined as body mass index - BMI ≥35 kg/m²) and residualized BMI change scores at follow-up. We analysed repeated measures of baseline and follow-up pairs with 6- to 7-year follow-up on average (n = 22,390 and 23,811 observations in NCDS and BCS, respecti

SUBMITTER: Putra IGNE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12010312 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature