RESTRAINED EATING: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BELONGING OR NOT TO HEALTH COURSES AND EXPERIENCES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Restrained eating according to belonging to the health area and experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic

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https://doi.org/10.24933/rep.v7i1.303

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eating behavior, covid-19, restrained eating

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Introduction: The set of characteristics that differentiates people who practice greater restrained eating and experience harmful repercussions on their health because of the practice, requires further elucidation. Knowing these characteristics in response to situations of extreme stress such as what occurred in the COVID-19 pandemic is also a relevant aspect, since knowing the influences of these situations on eating behavior can help build skills to improve eating of the population. Objective: To investigate the relationship between characteristics of university students and experiences in the pandemic on the components of restrained eating: uncontrol eating, cognitive restriction, and emotional eating. Methods: to investigate, using a cross-sectional design using an online survey, the responses of ninety-three university women to the 21-item Three Factor Eating Questionnaire (TFEQ-21), a questionnaire that measures restrained eating according to the factors uncontrol eating, cognitive restraint and emotional eating. The results were compared to “belonging or not to the health area”, “to perceive or not impacts on physical and emotional health in the pandemic”, “to perceive or not to perceive changes in the body in the pandemic”, Body Mass Index and sociodemographic data. Data were analyzed by analysis of variance with covariate (ANCOVA) and Pearson's correlation. Results: There was no significant difference between belonging or not belonging to the health area (uncontrol eating: F=0,60, p=0,44; cognitive restraint: F=1,31, p=0,25; emotional eating: F= 0,37, p=0,56) or perceive physical and mental impacts (uncontrol eating: F=0,14, p=0,7; cognitive restraint: F=1,79 p=0,18; emotional eating: F=2,66, p=0,11) on the variables of interest. But there were significantly higher scores for cognitive restraint among those who perceived positive changes in their bodies during the pandemic compared to those who did not (F=3,84, p=0,025). Conclusion: The higher cognitive restriction score among those who related positive changes in the body may be related to the greater degree of rigidity that health professionals (a large part of the sample) commonly impose themselves towards eating and body shape, which may have worsened during the pandemic. This rigidity deserves observation as it may be related to negative health repercussions.

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2023-09-11

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Amaro Rolfsen, A. L., Sumico de Lima Uyeno Jordão, K., & Moraes, C. (2023). RESTRAINED EATING: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BELONGING OR NOT TO HEALTH COURSES AND EXPERIENCES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Restrained eating according to belonging to the health area and experiences in the COVID-19 pandemic. Revista Ensaios Pioneiros, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.24933/rep.v7i1.303

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