The short inventory of grazing (SIG): development and validation of a new brief measure of a common eating behaviour with a compulsive dimension

Heriseanu, Andreea I.; Hay, Phillipa; Touyz, Stephen

doi:10.1186/s40337-019-0234-6

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“…This may be in the form of recurring binge eating episodes, with evidence demonstrating that there is some overlap between FA and BED [34]. However, the of food may occur in the form of grazing episodes across the day or night [35], with more recent measurement tools being developed that assess grazing in terms of frequency and associated emotions, including LOC [36]. Further, grazing that is associated with FA has been shown to contribute unique variance to the YFAS symptom score [35].…”

Section: Loss Of Control and Cravingmentioning

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Food Addiction: a Deep Dive into ‘Loss of Control’ and ‘Craving’

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Purpose of Review The majority of existing research discusses food addiction (FA) classification, which provides information for different groups and which groups may or may not be affected to differing degrees. Fewer studies report FA symptom scores, and fewer still report on individual symptoms. This paper discusses the symptoms of craving and loss of control as they are common FA symptoms that demonstrate similarities with both substance use disorders and some eating disorder pathology. Recent Findings Loss of control presents parallels with disordered eating, particularly binge eating disorder. Craving refers to the powerful or strong desire for something and, in contrast to lack of control, presents most overlap with substance use disorders. Summary While not the most common symptoms reported in published research, loss of control and craving attract attention because of parallels with substance use and eating disorder pathology, and research has increasingly focused on these symptoms in recent years.

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Section: Loss Of Control and Cravingmentioning

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“…The GQ total score is calculated by the addition of the seven items; the GQ includes two factors: "repetitive eating" (four items) and perceived "loss of control" (three items). The GQ was found to possess high internal consistency, test-retest reliability and convergent validity in a sample of undergraduate psychology students [36] and in a mixed sample of students and community participants [45]; in the present study, α for the entire GQ was 0.89, for the "repetitive eating" factor α = 0.84, and for the "loss of control" factor, α = 0.88. The two factors were significantly and strongly positively correlated, r = 0.66, p < .001.…”

Section: Grazing Severitymentioning

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“…Measuring compulsive and non-compulsive grazing frequency across a defined time period as another index of severity could be beneficial in future research, e.g. using different instruments such as the Short Inventory of Grazing [45].…”

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“…Janssen et al [17]). The construct of grazing itself could be further refined by investigating types and amount of food typically consumed, length and timing of grazing periods (especially in light of emerging findings regarding potential metabolic benefits of early timerestricted feeding [67,68]); additionally, using measures of grazing which better discriminate between grazing which is lower or higher in compulsivity such as the Rep(eat)-Q [38] or the SIG [45] would be indicated for a finer-grained analysis of the relationships between different aspects of grazing and cognitive processing, i.e. if higher compulsivity or higher repetitiveness displays a less favourable pattern of associations; it was not possible to determine this in the current study, as the two factors of the GQ were highly and positively correlated.…”

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Relating goal-directed behaviour to grazing in persons with obesity with and without eating disorder features

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Background Both obesity and eating disorders (ED) have been associated with reductions in purposeful, flexible goal-directed behaviour, and with an overreliance on more rigid habitual behaviour. It is currently unknown whether grazing, an eating style which is common in both conditions, is related to goal-directed behaviour. The current study therefore aimed to relate grazing to goal-directed behaviour in a group of participants with obesity with and without ED features, compared to a healthy-weight control group. Methods Participants (N = 87; 67.8% women, mean age 28.57 years), of whom 19 had obesity and significant eating disorder features, 25 had obesity but without marked eating disorder features, and 43 were age- and sex-matched healthy-weight controls, completed two instrumental learning tasks assessing action-outcome contingency sensitivity and devaluation sensitivity, as well as demographic and eating disorder-related questionnaires. Gamma and Ordinary Least Squares regressions were performed to examine the effect of group and grazing on goal-directed behaviour. Results Lower action-outcome contingency sensitivity was found in the group with obesity and with eating disorder features than in the group with obesity but without eating disorder features or in healthy controls. No group differences in devaluation sensitivity were found. A small but significant relationship was found between grazing severity and contingency sensitivity in the group with obesity and eating disorder features, such that increasing grazing severity was associated with less diminished contingency sensitivity. Conclusions There is some indication that in persons with obesity and eating disorder features instrumental behaviour is less flexible and adaptive; furthermore, within this group grazing may represent a goal-directed behaviour, despite unhelpful long-term implications of grazing.

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“…[2019] Int J Eat Disord. [5] Background: Grazing, the repetitious and unplanned eating of small amounts of food with or without a sense of loss of control (LOC), is an eating pattern of recent interest which is highly prevalent in eating disorders and obesity. The current study aimed to (1) assess psychometric properties of a short inventory of grazing (SIG), consisting of a "grazing in general" item and a "compulsive/LOC grazing" item and (2) examine associations between compulsive and non-compulsive grazing and body mass index (BMI), eating disorder psychopathology, distress and health-related quality of life.…”

Section: The Short Inventory Of Grazing (Sig): Development and Validamentioning

confidence: 99%