Skip to main content
Key Specialties
Cardiology Diabetology Endocrinology Gastroenterology Geriatrics and Gerontology Gynecology and Obstetrics Hematology Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Nephrology Neurology Oncology Pediatrics Respiratory Medicine Rheumatology Surgery
Congress Coverage
2024 ACC Congress 2023 ESMO Congress 2023 EASD Congress 2023 ERS Congress 2023 ESC Congress
Clinical Collections
Advances in Alzheimer’s

At a glance: The STEP trials

A round-up of the STEP phase 3 clinical trials evaluating semaglutide for weight loss in people with overweight or obesity.
ADVANCED SEARCH
Log in
Top
BioPsychoSocial Medicine
Published in: BioPsychoSocial Medicine 1/2019

Open Access 01-12-2019 | Research

Could emotional eating act as a mediator between sleep quality and food intake in female students?

Authors: Sevda Saleh-Ghadimi, Parvin Dehghan, Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi, Hamed Jafari-Vayghan

Published in: BioPsychoSocial Medicine | Issue 1/2019

Login to get access

Abstract

Background

Poor sleep quality is associated with overeating and unhealthy eating. The aim of this study was to investigate if emotional eating could act as a mediator between poor sleep quality and energy/macronutrients intake.

Methods

This cross-sectional study was performed with 150 female school-age students, 13 to 19 years old, living in Tabriz, Iran. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Emotional Eating Questionnaire (EEQ) were completed for data collection. Intake of energy and proportion of calorie from carbohydrate, protein, and fat were evaluated by a semi-quantified food frequency questionnaire. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Results

The mean (SD) of age, weight, and BMI were not statistically different between poor and good sleepers. The mean (SD) of PSQI score was 6.73 ± 2.88, with 75.3% of the participants experiencing poor sleep quality (PSQI> 5). Students with poor sleep quality had increased energy intake and their proportion of calorie intake from fat was higher (p<0.05). There was a positive correlation between poor sleep quality and emotional eating; however, emotional eating did not mediate the relationship between poor sleep quality and energy/macronutrients intake.

Conclusions

Emotional eating did not act as a mediator between poor sleep quality and energy/macronutrients intake in female students. However, poor sleep quality directly influenced energy intake and the proportion of calorie intake from fat as well as emotional eating.
Literature
1.
Ghanizadeh A, Kianpoor M, Rezaei M, Rezaei H, Moini R, Ahmadi J, et al. Sleep patterns and habits in high school students in Iran. Ann General Psychiatry. 2008;7(1):1.CrossRef
2.
Weiss A, Xu F, Storfer-Isser A, Thomas A, Ievers-Landis CE, Redline S. The association of sleep duration with adolescents’ fat and carbohydrate consumption. Sleep. 2010;33(9):1201–9.PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
3.
Kathrotia RG, Rao PV, Paralikar SJ, Shah CJ, Oommen ER. Late sleeping affects sleep duration and body mass index in adolescents. Iran J Med Sci. 2015;35(1):57–60.
4.
5.
Azadbakht L, Kelishadi R, Khodarahmi M, Qorbani M, Heshmat R, Motlagh ME, et al. The association of sleep duration and cardiometabolic risk factors in a national sample of children and adolescents: the CASPIAN III study. Nutrition. 2013;29(9):1133–41.PubMedCrossRef
6.
Gonnissen HK, Adam TC, Hursel R, Rutters F, Verhoef SP, Westerterp-Plantenga MS. Sleep duration, sleep quality and body weight: parallel developments. Physiol Behav. 2013;121:112–6.PubMedCrossRef
7.
Fatima Y, Doi S, Mamun A. Longitudinal impact of sleep on overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: a systematic review and bias-adjusted meta-analysis. Obes Rev. 2015;16(2):137–49.PubMedCrossRef
8.
Kim S, DeRoo LA, Sandler DP. Eating patterns and nutritional characteristics associated with sleep duration. Public Health Nutr. 2011;14(05):889–95.PubMedCrossRef
9.
Cappuccio FP, D'elia L, Strazzullo P, Miller MA. Quantity and quality of sleep and incidence of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Diabetes Care. 2010;33(2):414–20.PubMedCrossRef
10.
Cappuccio FP, Cooper D, D'elia L, Strazzullo P, Miller MA. Sleep duration predicts cardiovascular outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. Eur Heart J. 2011;32(12):1484–92.PubMedCrossRef
11.
Guo X, Zheng L, Li Y, Yu S, Liu S, Zhou X, et al. Association between sleep duration and hypertension among Chinese children and adolescents. Clin Cardiol. 2011;34(12):774–81.PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
12.
Kong AP, Wing Y-K, Choi KC, Li AM, Ko GT, Ma RC, et al. Associations of sleep duration with obesity and serum lipid profile in children and adolescents. Sleep Med. 2011;12(7):659–65.PubMedCrossRef
13.
AbbasalizadFarhangi M, Dehghan P, Jahangiry L. Mental health problems in relation to eating behavior patterns, nutrient intakes and health related quality of life among Iranian female adolescents. Plos one. 2018, 13(4):e0195669.PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
14.
Lundahl A, Nelson TD. Sleep and food intake: a multisystem review of mechanisms in children and adults. J Health Psychol. 2015;20(6):794–805.PubMedCrossRef
15.
Quick V, Shoff S, Lohse B, White A, Horacek T, Greene G. Relationships of eating competence, sleep behaviors and quality, and overweight status among college students. Eat Behav. 2015;19:15–9.PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
16.
Grandner MA, Kripke DF, Naidoo N, Langer RD. Relationships among dietary nutrients and subjective sleep, objective sleep, and napping in women. Sleep Med. 2010;11(2):180–4.PubMedCrossRef
17.
Grandner MA, Jackson N, Gerstner JR, Knutson KL. Sleep symptoms associated with intake of specific dietary nutrients. J Sleep Res. 2014;23(1):22–34.PubMedCrossRef
18.
Lotfi M, Khadem Al-Hosseini M, Jafarirad S. The relationship of sleep quality with eating behavior and food intake among Male University students. J Sleep Med Disord. 2015;2(5):1034.
19.
20.
Vgontzas A, Lin H, Papaliaga M, Calhoun S, Vela-Bueno A, Chrousos G, et al. Short sleep duration and obesity: the role of emotional stress and sleep disturbances. Int J Obes. 2008;32(5):801.CrossRef
21.
van Zundert RM, van Roekel E, Engels RC, Scholte RH. Reciprocal associations between adolescents’ night-time sleep and daytime affect and the role of gender and depressive symptoms. J Youth Adolesc. 2015;44(2):556–69.PubMedCrossRef
22.
Gibson EL. Emotional influences on food choice: sensory, physiological and psychological pathways. Physiol Behav. 2006;89(1):53–61.PubMedCrossRef
23.
Dweck JS, Jenkins SM, Nolan LJ. The role of emotional eating and stress in the influence of short sleep on food consumption. Appetite. 2014;72:106–13.PubMedCrossRef
24.
Mallampalli MP, Carter CL. Exploring sex and gender differences in sleep health: a Society for Women's Health Research report. J Women's Health. 2014;23(7):553–62.CrossRef
25.
van Strien T, van der Zwaluw CS, Engels RC. Emotional eating in adolescents: a gene (SLC6A4/5-HTT)–depressive feelings interaction analysis. J Psychiatr Res. 2010;44(15):1035–42.PubMedCrossRef
26.
Neter J, Wasserman W, Kutner M. Applied Regression Models. Boston: Richard D. Irwin. Inc; 1999.
27.
Garaulet M, Canteras M, Morales E, López-Guimera G, Sánchez-Carracedo D, Corbalán-Tutau M. Validation of a questionnaire on emotional eating for use in cases of obesity: the emotional eater questionnaire (EEQ). Nutr Hosp. 2012;27(2):645–51.PubMed
28.
Buysse DJ, Reynolds CF, Monk TH, Berman SR, Kupfer DJ. The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: a new instrument for psychiatric practice and research. Psychiatry Res. 1989;28(2):193–213.PubMedCrossRef
29.
Moghaddam JF, Nakhaee N, Sheibani V, Garrusi B, Amirkafi A. Reliability and validity of the Persian version of the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI-P). Sleep Breath. 2012;16(1):79–82.CrossRef
30.
Ebrahimi Afkham A, Ghalebandi M, Salehi M, Kafian Tafti A, Vakili Y, Akhlaghi Farsi E. study of sleep parameters and factors effecting on sleep quality of outpatients clients of selected Rasol-E-Akram hospital clinics. J Iran Univ Med Sci. 2008;58(15):31–7.
31.
Esfahani FH, Asghari G, Mirmiran P, Azizi F. Reproducibility and relative validity of food group intake in a food frequency questionnaire developed for the Tehran lipid and glucose study. J Epidemiol. 2010;20(2):150–8.PubMedCrossRef
32.
Hillman DR, Lack LC. Public health implications of sleep loss: the community burden. Med J Aust. 2013;199:S7–S10.PubMedCrossRef
33.
McKnight-Eily LR, Eaton DK, Lowry R, Croft JB, Presley-Cantrell L, Perry GS. Relationships between hours of sleep and health-risk behaviors in US adolescent students. Prev Med. 2011;53(4–5):271–3.PubMedCrossRef
34.
Sawyer SM, Afifi RA, Bearinger LH, Blakemore S-J, Dick B, Ezeh AC, et al. Adolescence: a foundation for future health. Lancet. 2012;379(9826):1630–40.PubMedCrossRef
35.
Fernández-Mendoza J, Vela-Bueno A, Vgontzas AN, Olavarrieta-Bernardino S, Ramos-Platón MJ, Bixler EO, et al. Nighttime sleep and daytime functioning correlates of the insomnia complaint in young adults. J Adolesc. 2009;32(5):1059–74.PubMedCrossRef
36.
Cheng SH, Shih C-C, Lee IH, Hou Y-W, Chen KC, Chen K-T, et al. A study on the sleep quality of incoming university students. Psychiatry Res. 2012;197(3):270–4.PubMedCrossRef
37.
38.
Curcio G, Tempesta D, Scarlata S, Marzano C, Moroni F, Rossini PM, et al. Validity of the Italian version of the Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI). Neurol Sci. 2013;34(4):511–9.PubMedCrossRef
39.
40.
Arora T, Broglia E, Pushpakumar D, Lodhi T, Taheri S. An investigation into the strength of the association and agreement levels between subjective and objective sleep duration in adolescents. PLoS One. 2013;8(8):e72406.PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
41.
Tremaine RB, Dorrian J, Blunden S. Subjective and objective sleep in children and adolescents: measurement, age, and gender differences. Sleep Biol Rhythms. 2010;8(4):229–38.CrossRef
42.
Landry GJ, Best JR, Liu-Ambrose T. Measuring sleep quality in older adults: a comparison using subjective and objective methods. Front Aging Neurosci. 2015;7:166.PubMedPubMedCentral
43.
Kilkus JM, Booth JN, Bromley LE, Darukhanavala AP, Imperial JG, Penev PD. Sleep and eating behavior in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes. Obesity. 2012;20(1):112–7.PubMedCrossRef
44.
Geiker NRW, Astrup A, Hjorth MF, Sjödin A, Pijls L, Markus CR. Does stress influence sleep patterns, food intake, weight gain, abdominal obesity and weight loss interventions and vice versa? Obes Rev. 2018;19(1):81–97.PubMedCrossRef
45.
Taheri S, Lin L, Austin D, Young T, Mignot E. Short sleep duration is associated with reduced leptin, elevated ghrelin, and increased body mass index. PLoS Med. 2004;1(3):e62.PubMedPubMedCentralCrossRef
46.
Chaput JP, Després JP, Bouchard C, Tremblay A. Short sleep duration is associated with reduced leptin levels and increased adiposity: results from the Quebec family study. Obesity. 2007;15(1):253–61.PubMedCrossRef
47.
Al-Disi D, Al-Daghri N, Khanam L, Al-Othman A, Al-Saif M, Sabico S, et al. Subjective sleep duration and quality influence diet composition and circulating adipocytokines and ghrelin levels in teen-age girls. Endocr J. 2010;57(10):915–23.PubMedCrossRef
48.
Haghighatdoost F, Karimi G, Esmaillzadeh A, Azadbakht L. Sleep deprivation is associated with lower diet quality indices and higher rate of general and central obesity among young female students in Iran. Nutrition. 2012;28(11):1146–50.PubMedCrossRef
49.
Coumans JM, Danner UN, Intemann T, De Decker A, Hadjigeorgiou C, Hunsberger M, et al. Emotion-driven impulsiveness and snack food consumption of European adolescents: results from the I. Family study. Appetite. 2018;123:152–9.PubMedCrossRef
50.
Hill DC, Moss RH, Sykes-Muskett B, Conner M, O'Connor DB. Stress and eating behaviors in children and adolescents: systematic review and meta-analysis. Appetite. 2018;123:14–22.PubMedCrossRef
51.
Laposky AD, Bass J, Kohsaka A, Turek FW. Sleep and circadian rhythms: key components in the regulation of energy metabolism. FEBS Lett. 2008;582(1):142–51.PubMedCrossRef
52.
Scheer FA, Hilton MF, Mantzoros CS, Shea SA. Adverse metabolic and cardiovascular consequences of circadian misalignment. Proc Natl Acad Sci. 2009;106(11):4453–8.PubMedCrossRefPubMedCentral
53.
Jalilolghadr S, Hashemi S, Javadi M, Esmailzadehha N, Jahanihashemi H, Afaghi A. Sleep habits of Iranian pre-school children in an urban area: late sleeping and sleep debt in children. Sleep Biol Rhythms. 2012;10(2):154–6.CrossRef
54.
Spira AP, Beaudreau SA, Stone KL, Kezirian EJ, Lui L-Y, Redline S, et al. Reliability and validity of the Pittsburgh sleep quality index and the Epworth sleepiness scale in older men. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2012;67A(4):433–9.CrossRefPubMedCentral
Metadata
Title
Could emotional eating act as a mediator between sleep quality and food intake in female students?
Authors
Sevda Saleh-Ghadimi
Parvin Dehghan
Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi
Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi
Hamed Jafari-Vayghan
Publication date
01-12-2019
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BioPsychoSocial Medicine / Issue 1/2019
Electronic ISSN: 1751-0759
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13030-019-0154-3

Other articles of this Issue 1/2019

BioPsychoSocial Medicine 1/2019 Go to the issue

Research

Cognitive behavioral therapy with interoceptive exposure and complementary video materials for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS): protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial in Japan

Review

Potential benefits of integrating ecological momentary assessment data into mHealth care systems

Research

Attitude of pregnant women towards Normal delivery and factors driving use of caesarian section in Iran (2016)

Research

A potential relation between premenstrual symptoms and subjective perception of health and stress among college students: a cross-sectional study

Review

The effectiveness of intervention with board games: a systematic review

Case report

Controlling the laxative abuse of anorexia nervosa patients with the Serigaya Methamphetamine Relapse Prevention Program workbook: a case report