Relation Between Night Eating Syndrome and Academic Grades Among University Students

Ahmad, Mehrunnisha; Kashoo, Faizan Zaffar; Alqahtani, Mazen; Sami, Waqas; Rizvi, Moattar Raza; Bushra, Amira

doi:10.25179/tjem.2018-63015

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“…While the caloric distribution by mealtime is adequate, the fact that students consume an average of 120 kcal/day in latenight snacks is concerning. Ahmad et al discovered that late-night snacking is linked with an increase in BMI and a decline in grade point average among university students (14).…”

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The Association Between Spiritual Wellbeing and Dietary Intake Among Overweight and Obese Female University Student: A Cross-Sectional Study

Shahadan

Ali²,

Ismail

2022

Int J Care Scholars

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Introduction: Obesity has become a public health threat worldwide and processing a high burden to the healthcare system. This study aimed to determine the association between spiritual wellbeing and dietary intake among overweight and obese female students in a university in Peninsular Malaysia. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study involving 100 female students from a public university in the East Coast Region of Peninsular Malaysia. The participants are selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Spiritual wellbeing is measured using an adapted and validated spirituality questionnaire, while the dietary intake was calculated using a 24-hour dietary intake questionnaire. Data were analysed using SPSS version 23 and Nutritionist Pro. Pearson correlation is applied to measure the association between spiritual wellbeing and dietary intake. Results: Spiritual wellbeing was negatively correlated with dietary intake (r= -0.026, p=0.797). The results showed no significant association between spiritual wellbeing and dietary intake (p>0.05). Conclusion: To conclude, there is no significant association between spiritual wellbeing and dietary intake among overweight and obese female students. Future research could add other variables such as the micronutrients and macronutrients into the study can help to get a more significant result. Besides, a large-scale study is also warranted to observe the association between spiritual wellbeing and dietary intake among overweight and obese female university students in Malaysia.

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The Association Between Spiritual Wellbeing and Dietary Intake Among Overweight and Obese Female University Student: A Cross-Sectional Study

Shahadan

Ali²,

Ismail

2022

Int J Care Scholars

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“…In studies of convenience samples of university students, the prevalence based on the NEDQ was reported to range from 1.2% [16] and 2.4% [14] to as high as 5.7% [9]. In a study of Turkish university students, 9.5% met the criteria for NES based on the NEDQ [17]. The only study of a national convenience sample of adults using the NEDQ found a prevalence of 9.4% [7].…”

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Factor structure of the Night Eating Diagnostic Questionnaire (NEDQ) and an evaluation of the diagnostic criteria of the night eating syndrome

Nolan

Geliebter

2019

J Eat Disord

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BackgroundThe Night Eating Diagnostic Questionnaire (NEDQ) is a validated assessment of the night eating syndrome (NES) based on the proposed diagnostic criteria. While past results show that NEDQ is associated with psychopathology and body mass index (BMI), the relationships between the proposed NES diagnostic criteria and psychopathology and BMI have not been investigated. Thus, the relationships between the proposed NES diagnostic criteria and factors previously associated with NES, namely depression, “food addiction” (FA), sleep quality, and BMI were examined. Finally, the NEDQ factor structure was examined for the first time in order to determine whether the NEDQ is assessing NES appropriately.MethodsThe NEDQ, depression, sleep quality, and FA questionnaires were administered to a sample of older community members (n = 468) and a student sample (n = 254). Principal Components Analysis (PCA) was performed to examine the factor structure of the NEDQ. The relationships between the proposed diagnostic criteria and depression, sleep quality, FA, and BMI were examined using multiple regression.ResultsThe proposed NES criteria were highly intercorrelated. PCA revealed a single factor solution for the NEDQ. In the community sample, depression was associated with the presence of five of nine proposed diagnostic criteria while poor sleep quality and FA were associated with the presence of seven and six criteria respectively. In the community sample, only the sleep problems and impairment/distress criteria were positively associated with BMI. In the student sample, fewer criteria were associated with psychopathology, and no criteria were associated with BMI.ConclusionsThese findings support the proposed criteria for diagnosis of NES. All proposed criteria were associated with at least one psychopathology measure. BMI was only associated with the sleep problems and impairment/distress criteria in the community sample. The PCA finding of a single factor indicates that the NEDQ is a cohesive assessment of NES, and that the NEDQ is a good measure of NES criteria.

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“…Eating right and eating timely is one of the biggest busters to deal with stress and obesity. [ 67 ]…”

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Obesity and Stress

Kumar

Rizvi

Saraswat

2022

International Journal of Preventive Medicine

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Two highly overriding problems that the society is facing today are stress and obesity. This narrative review article explains the vicious cycle of how stress leads to obesity and vice versa. Stress and obesity are interconnected to each other through different lines of cognition, behavior, and physiology. Stress can interfere with cognitive processes like self-regulation. Stress can also influence behavior by indulging in overeating of foods that are high in calories, fat, and sugar. Stress also invigorates the generation of biochemical hormones and peptides, for example, leptin, ghrelin, and neuropeptide Y. This article also extracts the contribution of weight stigma and social stress in producing obesity in an obesogenic process. Recent Studies describe that psychological distress and elevated cortisol secretion promote abdominal fat, a feature of the metabolic syndrome, improvements in mindfulness, chronic stress, and cortisol awakening response (CAR) were associated with reductions in abdominal fat. Mindfulness intervention for stress suggests that mindfulness training improves eating patterns and the CAR, which may reduce abdominal fat over time. Obesity has a multifaceted etiology. In this review, several factors of stress are identified that affect the development of obesity. This review also provides valuable insight into the relationship between obesity and stress.

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Relation Between Night Eating Syndrome and Academic Grades Among University Students

Cited by 13 publications

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The Association Between Spiritual Wellbeing and Dietary Intake Among Overweight and Obese Female University Student: A Cross-Sectional Study

The Association Between Spiritual Wellbeing and Dietary Intake Among Overweight and Obese Female University Student: A Cross-Sectional Study

Factor structure of the Night Eating Diagnostic Questionnaire (NEDQ) and an evaluation of the diagnostic criteria of the night eating syndrome

Obesity and Stress

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