Emotional Eating Predicts Weight Regain Among Black Women in the SisterTalk Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to assess effects of emotional eating and stress on weight change among Black women in a culturally tailored weight-control program.

Methods

SisterTalk, a cable-TV-delivered weight-control randomized trial, included 331 Black women (aged 18-75 years; BMI ≥ 25 kg/m²) in Boston, Massachusetts. BMI and waist circumference (WC) were assessed at baseline and 3, 8, and 12 months post randomization. Frequency of "eating when depressed or sad" (EWD) and "eating to manage stress" (ETMS) (i.e., "emotional eating") and perceived stress were also assessed. Lagged analyses of data for intervention participants (n = 258) assessed associations of BMI and WC outcomes at each follow-up visit with EWD and ETMS frequency and stress measured at the most rec

SUBMITTER: Risica PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8672458 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature