OBESITY AND COMPULSIVE EATING IN CHILDREN AGED 8 TO 11 YEARS
Abstract:
The present study aims to measure binge or compulsive eating in the case of 95 children
from a general school of Sibiu city in Romania. For this measurement, a six-item self-reporting
instrument adapted after Compulsive Eating Scale (CES) created first by Kagan & Squires in 1984,
was used. Questionnaire items are regarding eating habits and inability to control eating habits. Data
were stratified by body mass index (BMI) in order to analyze the association between obesity and
binge eating. Univariate analysis showed levels of significance below the threshold of 0.05 in case of
four of the six items, and below the threshold of 0.1 in case of for the other two. Scale scores for CES
in case of overweight and obese children were significantly higher than those in case of normal
weight children reinforce the idea of association between this type of eating and obesity.
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