Food addiction: Prevalence and its impact on Menoufia medical students

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Public health and Community medicine department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia university

2 Public Health and Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Menoufia, Egypt

3 Lecturer of Public health and community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University

4 Public Health and Community Medicine department, Faculty of Medicine , Menoufia University, Menoufia governorate

Abstract

Background: Food addiction, a dysfunctional eating pattern, is featured by a powerful desire to overeat highly appetizing foods. Food addiction has drawn more attention over the last decades as it is implicated as a factor in the rising rates of obesity worldwide.



Objectives: to measure the prevalence, predictors, and impact of food addiction among the undergraduate medical students in Menoufia University.

Participants and Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out on 922 undergraduate medical students in Menoufia University. The modified Yale Food Addiction Scale (mYFAS 2.0) was used for food addiction diagnosis. Anxiety and depression were assessed using General Anxiety Disorder-7 scale (GAD-7) and Patient Health Questionnaire depression scale (PHQ-9) respectively.

Results: Food addiction prevalence among the studied group was 10.4 % (96 out of 922), with 43 (44.8%) of them were of mild degree, 28 (29.2%) were of moderate degree and 25 (26.0%) had a severe form of food addiction. The most prevalent food addiction indicator was excess eating till feeling full (151, 16.4%). Significant predictors of food addiction were Smoking (p

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The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 10 February 2024

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