Sex Differences in Quality of Life Impairment Associated With Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents

Griffiths, Scott; Murray, Stuart B.; Bentley, Caroline; Gratwick-Sarll, Kassandra; Harrison, Carmel; Mond, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.01.016

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“…Further, a small number of dietary behaviours were assessed. It is also a limitation that body dissatisfaction and/or eating-disordered behaviour were not assessed in this study as associations have been found between these factors and dietary intake and mental health [61][62][63]. Therefore, if body dissatisfaction and eating-disordered behaviour were accounted for as potential confounding factors this may have attenuated the current findings.…”

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Are Psychological Distress and Resilience Associated with Dietary Intake Among Australian University Students?

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Patterson

Siew

et al. 2019

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University students report unhealthy diets and experience poorer mental health than the general population. This study explores the association between psychological distress and resilience with dietary intake in a sample of Australian university students. Cross-sectional data from the University of Newcastle Student Healthy Lifestyle Survey 2017 were analysed. Psychological distress (Kessler Scale), resilience (Brief Resilience Scale) and fruit, vegetable, soft drink, takeaway food and breakfast intakes (short diet questions) were assessed. Socio-demographic (e.g., gender), student (e.g., undergraduate/postgraduate) and health characteristics (e.g., physical activity) were captured. Multivariate linear regression models explored associations between psychological distress and resilience with dietary intake, with adjustment for potential confounders. Analysis included 2710 students (mean age 26.9 ± 9.5 years, 30.4% male). In adjusted models, lower psychological distress was associated with higher fruit (β = −0.37, p = 0.001) and vegetable (β = −0.37, p < 0.001) serves/day, more frequent breakfast consumption (p < 0.001) and less frequent soft drink and takeaway food consumption (p < 0.001). Higher resilience was associated with higher fruit (β = 0.03, p = 0.022) and vegetable (β = 0.06, p < 0.001) serves/day, more frequent breakfast consumption (p = 0.005), and less frequent soft drink (p < 0.001) and takeaway food consumption (p = 0.001). These results highlight a potential link between psychological distress and resilience with diet, and that further research in this area is warranted.

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Are Psychological Distress and Resilience Associated with Dietary Intake Among Australian University Students?

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“…It is supposed that the decreased HRQOL in diabetic girls return to their general low perception of their QOL. Bisegger et al 2005 reported gender differences as potential causes of greater vulnerability of teen girls for decreased HRQOL aspects than boys, from the age of 13 years on, besides being diabetic, such as the more drastic puberty for girls; the onset of menstruation, hormonal fluctuations (Toffol et al 2014;Tanna et al 2016), higher levels of perceived stress, and stress-related health complaints in adolescent girls than boys (Östberg et al 2015), with handling problems and difficulties in different ways, namely girls tend to direct their coping patterns inwards, and boys outwards (Wiklund et al 2012); and less body image satisfaction (Griffiths et al 2017) and self-esteem (Gouveia et al 2014), more sensitivity, empathic concern (Van der Graaff et al 2014), and argument due to the social demands placed on girls, that are more staggering and more difficult to achieve (Barcellos et al 2014). The difference in relationships with peers and social relations between girls and boys at the teenage (Rose and Asher 2017) is also that boys often have more privileges and are given more space than girls (Chawla 2004).…”

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Health-related quality of life in a group of Egyptian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: relationship to microvascular complications

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Background: The increased prevalence of type 1 diabetes mellitus in children and adolescents with its complications, especially microvascular ones (retinopathy, nephropathy, and neuropathy) that affect the expectancy of their lives, besides imposing restrictions on their physical, emotional, and social functioning, adversely affecting their quality of life, in turn would lead to worsening of their compliance and adherence to the treatment with subsequent hazards on metabolic control, development, and progression of adverse diabetic complications that might cause multiple organ damage and impose more disease burden and impact the quality of life of the growing young diabetics and their families. Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess health-related quality of life of a group of Egyptian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes in addition to investigate the relation of microvascular complications and other sociodemographic and clinical indicators to their quality of life.

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“…Restrictive disordered eating risk was more common in girls than boys. However, the gender‐wise symptom profile was not as evident as has been shown in previous reports (Griffiths et al ., ; Wagner et al ., ). It is plausible that these inconsistencies are due to disparate questionnaire items across the studies.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…It is well established that disordered eating (DE) is linked to somatic symptoms, medical problems, and quality‐of‐life (QoL) impairment – even independent of body mass index (BMI) status (Hay et al ., ; Jenkins, Hoste, Meyer, & Blissett, ; Wagner, Stefano, Cicero, Latner, & Mond, ; Winkler et al ., ). These associations have also been identified in youth (Allen, Byrne, Oddy, & Crosby, ; Griffiths et al ., ). Longitudinal community‐based studies show protracted negative effects on both mental and physical (health‐related) quality of life (QoL) among those with self‐reported baseline indicators of DE (Fairweather‐Schmidt, Lee, & Wade, ; Wade, Wilksch, & Lee, ).…”

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Associations between adolescent risk for restrictive disordered eating and long‐term outcomes related to somatic symptoms, body mass index, and poor well‐being

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Hammarström

Fairweather‐Schmidt

et al. 2018

British J Health Psychol

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Data spanning nearly three decades suggest that physical well-being impairment is related to DE-R risk measured earlier in life, underscoring the urgency for targeted, gender-sensitive preventive interventions for teenagers. Statement of contribution What is already known on this subject? Disordered eating is linked to poor physical and mental well-being and quality of life. No longitudinal studies have examined long-term physical well-being consequences of adolescent disordered eating risk. What does this study add? Non-purging disordered eating symptoms in adolescence predict adverse physical well-being outcomes in middle-aged men and women. Targeted interventions and preventative work during adolescence are needed.

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Sex Differences in Quality of Life Impairment Associated With Body Dissatisfaction in Adolescents

Cited by 90 publications

References 30 publications

Are Psychological Distress and Resilience Associated with Dietary Intake Among Australian University Students?

Are Psychological Distress and Resilience Associated with Dietary Intake Among Australian University Students?

Health-related quality of life in a group of Egyptian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: relationship to microvascular complications

Associations between adolescent risk for restrictive disordered eating and long‐term outcomes related to somatic symptoms, body mass index, and poor well‐being

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