The mediating role of emotional eating in the relationship between perceived stress and dietary intake quality in Hispanic/Latino adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Obesity rates have steadily increased over the past three decades, and large racial/ethnic disparities in childhood obesity rates-specifically for Hispanic/Latino youth-highlight the major need for identifying and examining key mechanisms of obesogenic behaviors for this at-risk population. This study investigates the relationship between stress and dietary quality in Hispanic/Latino adolescents and seeks to determine the mediating role of emotional eating as a behavioral mechanism. Baseline data from 169 adolescents enrolled in the Imagine HEALTH trial were used to investigate these relationships. Perceived stress and emotional eating were assessed with age-validated questionnaires, and dietary quality was measured via 24-hour recall dietary assessments (later calculated as individual Hea

SUBMITTER: Bell BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8380719 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature