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cross-sectional·pediatrics, public health, nutrition, epidemiology, psychiatry·PMC10574204

Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C) Results in Girls: Polish Adolescents’ COVID-19 Experience (PLACE-19) Study

Nutrients · 3 authors, 2 centres

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Overweight participants more often desired to eat while feeling down, sad, helpless, and upset compared to underweight participants.

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Overweight participants more often desired to eat while feeling down, sad, helpless, and upset compared to underweight participants. Normal-weight participants more often desired to eat while feeling they were not doing enough than underweight participants.

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pediatrics

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PMC10574204

Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C) Results in Girls: Polish Adolescents’ COVID-19 Experience (PLACE-19) Study

Nutrients

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Abstract Stress related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused substantial changes in eating behaviors, and may have been associated with emotional eating, especially in female individuals. The aim of the present study was to analyze the association between stress perceived during the COVID-19 pandemic and emotional eating in girls, within the third phase of the Polish Adolescents’ COVID-19 Experience (PLACE-19) Study. A nationwide sample of 818 Polish female adolescents, aged 15–20, was gathered. The adolescents were recruited to the study based on a random quota sampling procedure. Using a computer-assisted web interview (CAWI) survey, participants filled out the Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C) to assess the urge to cope with negative emotions by eating, and the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (ASQ) to assess perceived stress. Additionally, the data concerning body mass, height, as well as body mass change during the COVID-19 pandemic were verified. The groups most susceptible to emotional eating were excessive body mass female adolescents, those who gained weight during the COVID-19 pandemic and those experiencing high stress levels while facing negative emotions. In order to plan effective therapeutic interventions dealing with the issue of emotional eating, both psychological therapy and dietary strategy tailored to the individual should be considered for the indicated susceptible groups. Keywords: emotional eating, emotional stress, body mass, Adolescent Stress Questionnaire (ASQ), Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C), adolescents, PLACE-19 Study

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Dominika Skolmowska, Dominika Głąbska, Dominika Guzek. Stress during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Emotional Eating Scale Adapted for Children and Adolescents (EES-C) Results in Girls: Polish Adolescents’ COVID-19 Experience (PLACE-19) Study. Nutrients. (2023). https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15194197

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Dominika Skolmowska, Dominika Głąbska, Dominika Guzek

1Department of Dietetics, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland; [email protected]
2Department of Food Market and Consumer Research, Institute of Human Nutrition Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS-SGGW), 159C Nowoursynowska Street, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland; [email protected]