Association of childhood abuse with behavioral weight-loss outcomes: Examining the mediating effect of binge eating severity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study aims were to (1) document the relationship between a history of childhood abuse and weight change during behavioral obesity treatment and (2) estimate the indirect effect of childhood abuse on weight change through binge eating severity.

Methods

Participants (n = 431) were enrolled in a behavioral weight-loss intervention. Childhood physical and emotional abuse history and current binge eating severity were self-reported. Percent weight loss at 6 months was calculated using measured weight. Adjusted mediation models examined whether there was an indirect effect of childhood physical and emotional abuse on 6-month percent weight loss that operated through binge eating severity.

Results

After covariate adjustment, childhood physical abuse, but not em

SUBMITTER: Emery Tavernier RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8970345 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature