PMID- 37173366
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230515
LR  - 20230606
IS  - 2045-2322 (Electronic)
IS  - 2045-2322 (Linking)
VI  - 13
IP  - 1
DP  - 2023 May 12
TI  - Low eating self-efficacy is associated with unfavorable eating behavior 
      tendencies among individuals with overweight and obesity.
PG  - 7730
LID - 10.1038/s41598-023-34513-0 [doi]
LID - 7730
AB  - Success in long-term weight management depends partly on psychological and 
      behavioral aspects. Understanding the links between psychological factors and 
      eating behavior tendencies is needed to develop more effective weight management 
      methods. This population-based cross-sectional study examined whether eating 
      self-efficacy (ESE) is associated with cognitive restraint (CR), uncontrolled 
      eating (UE), emotional eating (EE), and binge eating (BE). The hypothesis was 
      that individuals with low ESE have more unfavorable eating behavior tendencies 
      than individuals with high ESE. Participants were classified as low ESE and high 
      ESE by the Weight-Related Self-Efficacy questionnaire (WEL) median cut-off point. 
      Eating behavior tendencies were assessed with Three Factor Eating Questionnaire 
      R-18 and Binge Eating Scale, and additionally, by the number of difficulties in 
      weight management. The difficulties were low CR, high UE, high EE, and moderate 
      or severe BE. Five hundred and thirty-two volunteers with overweight and obesity 
      were included in the study. Participants with low ESE had lower CR (p < 0.03) and 
      higher UE, EE, and BE (p < 0.001) than participants with high ESE. Thirty-nine 
      percent of men with low ESE had at least two difficulties in successful weight 
      control while this percentage was only 8% in men with high ESE. In women, the 
      corresponding figures were 56% and 10%. The risk of low ESE was increased by high 
      UE [OR 5.37 (95% CI 1.99-14.51)], high EE [OR 6.05 (95% CI 2.07-17.66)], or 
      moderate or severe BE [OR 12.31 (95% CI 1.52-99.84)] in men, and by low CR [OR 
      5.19 (95% CI 2.22-12.18)], high UE [OR 7.20 (95% CI 2.41-19.22)], or high EE [OR 
      23.66 (95% CI 4.79-116.77)] in women. Low ESE was associated with unfavorable 
      eating behavior tendencies and multiple concomitant difficulties in successful 
      weight loss promotion. These eating behavior tendencies should be considered when 
      counseling patients with overweight and obesity.
CI  - (c) 2023. The Author(s).
FAU - Oikarinen, Noora
AU  - Oikarinen N
AD  - Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, 
      Finland.
FAU - Jokelainen, Terhi
AU  - Jokelainen T
AD  - Department of Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Heikkila, Laura
AU  - Heikkila L
AD  - Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, 
      Finland.
AD  - Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, 
      Oulu, Finland.
AD  - Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Oulu Deaconess Institute Foundation 
      sr, Oulu, Finland.
AD  - Research Unit of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 
      Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Nurkkala, Marjukka
AU  - Nurkkala M
AD  - Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, Oulu Deaconess Institute Foundation 
      sr, Oulu, Finland.
AD  - Research Unit of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oulu, 
      Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Hukkanen, Janne
AU  - Hukkanen J
AD  - Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, 
      Finland.
AD  - Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, 
      Oulu, Finland.
AD  - Biocenter Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Salonurmi, Tuire
AU  - Salonurmi T
AD  - Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, 
      Finland.
AD  - Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, 
      Oulu, Finland.
AD  - Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Faculty of Medicine, 
      University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Savolainen, Markku J
AU  - Savolainen MJ
AD  - Research Unit of Biomedicine and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, 
      Finland.
AD  - Department of Medicine, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland.
AD  - Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, 
      Oulu, Finland.
FAU - Teeriniemi, Anna-Maria
AU  - Teeriniemi AM
AD  - Medical Research Center Oulu, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, 
      Oulu, Finland. anna-maria.teeriniemi@oulu.fi.
AD  - Department of Medicine, Endocrinology and Clinical Nutrition, Kuopio University 
      Hospital, Kuopio, Finland. anna-maria.teeriniemi@oulu.fi.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20230512
PL  - England
TA  - Sci Rep
JT  - Scientific reports
JID - 101563288
SB  - IM
MH  - Male
MH  - Humans
MH  - Female
MH  - *Overweight/psychology
MH  - *Self Efficacy
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Feeding Behavior/psychology
MH  - Obesity/psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
PMC - PMC10182077
COIS- The authors declare no competing interests.
EDAT- 2023/05/13 15:12
MHDA- 2023/05/15 06:42
PMCR- 2023/05/12
CRDT- 2023/05/12 23:18
PHST- 2022/04/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/05/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/05/15 06:42 [medline]
PHST- 2023/05/13 15:12 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/05/12 23:18 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/05/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-023-34513-0 [pii]
AID - 34513 [pii]
AID - 10.1038/s41598-023-34513-0 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Sci Rep. 2023 May 12;13(1):7730. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-34513-0.