Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Section on Growth and Obesity, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Division of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Pediatr Obes. 2022 Feb;17(2):e12851. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.12851. Epub 2021 Sep 8.
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.
We tested whether sleep duration and timing were associated with food cravings and LOC-eating.
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).
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.
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.
不规律的睡眠模式可能会通过增加食物渴望和失控(LOC)进食来促进体重增加;然而,这些关系在年轻人中尚未得到阐明。
我们测试了睡眠时间和时间是否与食物渴望和 LOC 进食有关。
在 14 天内,青少年佩戴活动监测器以评估睡眠,并使用生态瞬时评估报告食物渴望和 LOC 进食的严重程度。广义线性混合模型测试了睡眠各个方面(即持续时间、开始时间、中点和醒来时间)的每周和每晚变化与次日食物渴望和 LOC 进食之间的关联。模型在调整了相关协变量(例如年龄、性别、肥胖程度)后重新运行。
在 48 名青少年(12.88±2.69 岁,68.8%为女性,33.3%超重/肥胖)中,每周和每晚的睡眠方面都与食物渴望没有显著关联(p 值=0.08-0.93)。每周睡眠持续时间较短的青少年(估计ß=-0.31,p=0.004)、每周中点较早(估计ß=-0.47,p=0.010)和每周醒来时间较晚(估计ß=0.49,p=0.010)的青少年报告的 LOC 进食严重程度更高;这些发现在调整后的模型中仍然存在。
在青少年中,每周而非每晚的睡眠多个方面的变化与 LOC 进食严重程度相关;与食物渴望无关。在儿科 LOC 进食和肥胖预防计划中,应将睡眠评估为一个潜在的可改变的目标。