The Comparison of Food Addiction Rates and Characteristics Between Obese and Non-Obese Individuals: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abstract

Aim: Even though obesity and food addiction have been linked, only a small number of obese individuals fulfill the diagnostic criteria for food addiction, on the other hand some normal and underweight people also meet these criteria. To investigate the difference between the prevalence of food addiction between obese and non-obese persons using Yale Food Addiction Scale. Material and Methods: A demographic information form and Yale Food Addiction Scale was applied to obese and non-obese individiuals admitted to family medicine and obesity outpatient clinic. Significant differences of normally distributed data were assessed using a t-test, and significant differences of not normally distributed data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test. Categorical data were expressed as percentages. The associations between food addiction and age, BMI, gender, and smoking status and the associationsbetween gender, smoking, food addiction, and obesity were determined by using the established a binary logistic regression models. P