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Problematic Eating Behaviour, Food Preferences, and Lifestyles until Early Adulthood
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Problematic Eating Behaviour, Food Preferences, and Lifestyles until Early Adulthood

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2024) | Viewed by 9568

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Rui Poínhos

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Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto (FCNAUP), Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal
Interests: nutrition and dietetics; psychology; eating behaviour; eating disorders; kidney disease; dialysis; diabetes; overweight/obesity; nutritional status; nutritional risk; psychometric properties
Prof. Dr. Bruno M. P. M. Oliveira

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1. Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto (FCNAUP), Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal
2. Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Apoio à Decisão, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores–Tecnologia e Ciência, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 378, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal
Interests: eating behaviour; eating disorders; overweight/obesity; body composition, food choice; food preferences; biostatistics; clinical nutrition
Prof. Dr. Victor Viana

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Faculdade de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação, Universidade do Porto (FCNAUP), Rua do Campo Alegre, 823, 4150-180 Porto, Portugal; Centro Hospitalar Universitário de São João, E.P.E., Alameda Prof. Hernâni Monteiro, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal
Interests: eating behaviour; overweight/obesity; feeding disorders; eating disorders; health psychology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Eating habits during childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood influence the individual’s health and well-being throughout life. Being explained by a complex set of factors that change and interact dynamically, these habits need to be studied and understood in a comprehensive way. The foundations for food preferences start to define during the early stages of development and may either lead to a healthy relationship with food and eating or act as a trigger to problematic eating behavior, including feeding or eating disorders.

With this Special Issue of Healthcare, we intend to contribute to a broad understanding of problematic eating behavior until early adulthood and its underlying factors. We encourage the submission of manuscripts based on both quantitative and qualitative approaches, from different cultures and contexts, and from authors with different backgrounds (e.g., nutrition and psychology). From food preferences and food choice to actual feeding and eating disorders, we are accepting original research and systematic reviews within this scope, namely manuscripts which may help to fill in the gaps in the knowledge on these themes.

Prof. Dr. Rui Poínhos
Prof. Dr. Bruno M. P. M. Oliveira
Prof. Dr. Victor Viana
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • eating behaviour
  • eating disorders
  • feeding disorders
  • food preferences
  • food choice
  • lifestyles
  • children
  • adolescents
  • young adults

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Patterns of Eating Behavior among 13-Year-Old Adolescents and Associated Factors: Findings from the Generation XXI Birth Cohort
by Ingrid Nakamura, Andreia Oliveira, Sarah Warkentin, Bruno M. P. M. Oliveira and Rui Poínhos
Healthcare 2023, 11(10), 1371; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11101371 - 10 May 2023
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Eating behavior adopted during adolescence may persist into adulthood. The aims of this study were to identify eating behavior patterns among Portuguese adolescents and to explore whether groups differ in terms of early life and family characteristics, severity of depressive symptoms, and body [...] Read more.
Eating behavior adopted during adolescence may persist into adulthood. The aims of this study were to identify eating behavior patterns among Portuguese adolescents and to explore whether groups differ in terms of early life and family characteristics, severity of depressive symptoms, and body mass index (BMI) z-score. Participants were 3601 13-year-olds enrolled in the birth cohort Generation XXI. Eating behavior was assessed using the self-reported Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ), validated in this sample. The severity of depressive symptoms was measured through the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II), and data on sociodemographic and anthropometrics were collected at birth and 13-years-old. Latent class analysis was conducted, and associations were estimated using multinomial logistic regression models. Five patterns of individuals were identified: “Picky eating”, “Disinterest towards food”, “Food neophilia”, “Emotional eating”, and “Food attractiveness”. The adolescents’ sex, maternal education, BMI z-score, and severity of depressive symptoms were significantly associated with the identified patterns. In particular, adolescents with a higher BMI z-score were more likely in “Food neophilia” while individuals with more severe depressive symptoms were in the “Picky eating”, “Emotional eating”, and “Food attractiveness” patterns. These findings suggest a starting point for the development and planning of targeted public health interventions. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Problematic Eating Behaviour, Food Preferences, and Lifestyles until Early Adulthood)
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Validity and Reliability of a Questionnaire on the Knowledge, Attitudes, Perceptions and Practices toward Food Poisoning among Malaysian Secondary School Students: A Pilot Study
by Pawitra Ramu, Malina Osman, Noor Azira Abdul Mutalib, Musheer A. Aljaberi, Kuo-Hsin Lee, Chung-Ying Lin and Rukman Awang Hamat
Healthcare 2023, 11(6), 853; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11060853 - 14 Mar 2023
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Children in school settings are at risk of contracting food poisoning due to inadequate food safety practices and safe eating behaviors. This research aimed to develop a valid and reliable questionnaire on the knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and practices (KAP2) toward food [...] Read more.
Children in school settings are at risk of contracting food poisoning due to inadequate food safety practices and safe eating behaviors. This research aimed to develop a valid and reliable questionnaire on the knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and practices (KAP2) toward food poisoning and its prevention among secondary school students. The questionnaire was developed by considering the Health Belief Model (HBM). A pilot study using a cross-sectional survey was conducted in Tangkak, Johor, among 30 selected students using a convenience sampling method. A pre-test was conducted on 15 secondary school students aged 13–17 years old prior to the pilot study, and they were excluded from the pilot study. The constructed knowledge was assessed using the difficulty and discrimination indices. Meanwhile, the reliability of the attitude, practice, and perception components in the questionnaire were assessed using Cronbach’s alpha. Regarding knowledge (34 items), the difficulty index showed that most items (n = 28) were easy, while one was difficult, and the remaining five were within an acceptable range. In addition, the discrimination index of the knowledge component (34 items) showed that twenty-two, three, and one had good, acceptable, and excellent ranges, respectively. Only eight items had a low discrimination power. All items of the attitude and practice components (10 items for each) showed a corrected item-total correlation value of >0.30. Only four out of twenty-one items of the perception component showed an unacceptable range of <0.30. However, following a discussion with the experts, all items were retained. With the incorporation of the HBM, the 75-item adapted food poisoning KAP2 questionnaire is valid and reliable. It can be utilized to measure and generate food poisoning KAP2 among secondary school students in Malaysia. Full article
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Parental Feeding Practices and Children’s Eating Behaviours: An Overview of Their Complex Relationship
by Alexandra Costa and Andreia Oliveira
Healthcare 2023, 11(3), 400; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11030400 - 31 Jan 2023
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Several studies have found an association between eating behaviours and weight status and obesity risk in childhood. Children’s eating behaviours arise from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Parents appear to play a central role in their development as the main responsible [...] Read more.
Several studies have found an association between eating behaviours and weight status and obesity risk in childhood. Children’s eating behaviours arise from a combination of genetic and environmental factors. Parents appear to play a central role in their development as the main responsible for shaping children’s feeding environment and eating experiences. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on parental influences on eating behaviours across childhood, mainly focusing on parental feeding practices. The associations between parental feeding practices and children’s eating behaviours have been extensively studied. However, most of the findings come from cross-sectional studies, so the possibility of reverse causality cannot be ruled out (i.e., children’s behaviours influencing parents). Most recently, a few longitudinal studies with a cross-lagged design have shown that the relationship between children’s eating behaviours and parental feeding practices seems to be bidirectional, where it is not straightforward whether parental feeding practices are a predictor or a consequence of children’s eating behaviours. Children’s eating behaviours influence parents to adopt certain feeding practices, but these practices also influence children’s behaviours over time. Parental feeding practices may have the potential to shape children’s eating behaviours and should be targeted to promote the development of non-obesogenic traits. However, parent–child interactions are complex and therefore both parent and child characteristics and the family dynamics should be considered. Full article
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