TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations of sleep with food cravings and loss-of-control eating in youth
T2 - An ecological momentary assessment study
AU - Parker, Megan N.
AU - LeMay-Russell, Sarah
AU - Schvey, Natasha A.
AU - Crosby, Ross D.
AU - Ramirez, Eliana
AU - Kelly, Nichole R.
AU - Shank, Lisa M.
AU - Byrne, Meghan E.
AU - Engel, Scott G.
AU - Swanson, Taylor N.
AU - Djan, Kweku G.
AU - Kwarteng, Esther A.
AU - Faulkner, Loie M.
AU - Zenno, Anna
AU - Brady, Sheila M.
AU - Yanovski, Susan Z.
AU - Tanofsky-Kraff, Marian
AU - Yanovski, Jack A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Published 2021. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Background: Inconsistent sleep patterns may promote excess weight gain by increasing food cravings and loss-of-control (LOC)-eating; however, these relationships have not been elucidated in youth. Objective: We tested whether sleep duration and timing were associated with food cravings and LOC-eating. Method: For 14 days, youths wore actigraphy monitors to assess sleep and reported severity of food cravings and LOC-eating using ecological momentary assessment. Generalized linear mixed models tested the associations between weekly and nightly shifts in facets of sleep (i.e., duration, onset, midpoint, and waketime) and next-day food cravings and LOC-eating. Models were re-run adjusting for relevant covariates (e.g., age, sex, adiposity). Results: Among 48 youths (12.88 ± 2.69 years, 68.8% female, 33.3% with overweight/obesity), neither weekly nor nightly facets of sleep were significantly associated with food cravings (ps = 0.08–0.93). Youths with shorter weekly sleep duration (est. ß = −0.31, p = 0.004), earlier weekly midpoints (est. ß = −0.47, p = 0.010) and later weekly waketimes (est. ß = 0.49, p = 0.010) reported greater LOC-eating severity; findings persisted in adjusted models. Conclusions: In youth, weekly, but not nightly, shifts in multiple facets of sleep were associated with LOC-eating severity; associations were not significant for food cravings. Sleep should be assessed as a potentially modifiable target in paediatric LOC-eating and obesity prevention programs.
AB - Background: Inconsistent sleep patterns may promote excess weight gain by increasing food cravings and loss-of-control (LOC)-eating; however, these relationships have not been elucidated in youth. Objective: We tested whether sleep duration and timing were associated with food cravings and LOC-eating. Method: For 14 days, youths wore actigraphy monitors to assess sleep and reported severity of food cravings and LOC-eating using ecological momentary assessment. Generalized linear mixed models tested the associations between weekly and nightly shifts in facets of sleep (i.e., duration, onset, midpoint, and waketime) and next-day food cravings and LOC-eating. Models were re-run adjusting for relevant covariates (e.g., age, sex, adiposity). Results: Among 48 youths (12.88 ± 2.69 years, 68.8% female, 33.3% with overweight/obesity), neither weekly nor nightly facets of sleep were significantly associated with food cravings (ps = 0.08–0.93). Youths with shorter weekly sleep duration (est. ß = −0.31, p = 0.004), earlier weekly midpoints (est. ß = −0.47, p = 0.010) and later weekly waketimes (est. ß = 0.49, p = 0.010) reported greater LOC-eating severity; findings persisted in adjusted models. Conclusions: In youth, weekly, but not nightly, shifts in multiple facets of sleep were associated with LOC-eating severity; associations were not significant for food cravings. Sleep should be assessed as a potentially modifiable target in paediatric LOC-eating and obesity prevention programs.
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U2 - 10.1111/ijpo.12851
DO - 10.1111/ijpo.12851
M3 - Article
C2 - 34498417
AN - SCOPUS:85114504375
SN - 2047-6302
VL - 17
JO - Pediatric Obesity
JF - Pediatric Obesity
IS - 2
M1 - e12851
ER -