Associations of Weekday and Weekend Sleep with Children's Reported Eating in the Absence of Hunger.

ABSTRACT: Insufficient average sleep duration has been inconsistently associated with poor diet and obesity risks in youth. Inconsistencies in findings across studies may be due to a general failure to examine associations in weekday versus weekend sleep. We hypothesized that greater variations in weekday and weekend sleep duration would be associated with more disinhibited eating behaviors, which, in turn, might be involved in the relationship between sleep and weight. We, therefore, examined, among healthy, non-treatment seeking youth, the associations of average weekly, weekend, and weekday sleep duration with eating in the absence of hunger (EAH), a disinhibited eating behavior associated with disordered eating and obesity. Sleep was assessed via actigraphy for 14 days. Participants completed a

SUBMITTER: LeMay-Russell S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6682878 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature