27th National Clinical Education Symposium Presentation Abstracts

28 APRIL 2025, MONDAY
17.00-18.15 ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION - 3

Evaluation of the Relationship Between Eating Behavior and Clinical and Demographic Data in Individuals Diagnosed with Obesity Using the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ)

Yasemin Koçyiğit1, Hatice Ayça Kaloğlu1

1. Department of Psychiatry, Etlik City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey


DOI: 10.5080/kes27.abs27 Page 49

BACKGROUND AND AIM:Inappropriate eating behaviors such as emotional eating, restrictive eating, and external eating have been shown in previous studies to be risk factors for both obesity and eating disorders. These eating behaviors can be measured reliably and validly using self-report scales such as the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ). This study aimed to examine the relationship between eating behaviors and clinical and demographic characteristics of individuals diagnosed with obesity.
METHODS (Ethics Committee Approval must be obtained and the number should be specified.):This study was conducted with 220 volunteers with a body mass index (BMI) ?30 kg/m2 who applied to the obesity center of Etlik City Hospital. SCID 1, sociodemographic data form and Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) were applied to the participants.The study's ethics committee approval was obtained from the Etlik City Hospital scientific and research ethics committee (Ethics committee no: 2024-871) and P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant.
RESULTS:The average age of the participants was 42 and 86.4% were female. A positive significant relationship was found between the participants' ages and restrictive eating, and a negative significant relationship was found between emotional eating and age. In addition, a positive significant relationship was found between the duration of obesity and restrictive eating. The female mean was found to be higher than the male mean in restrictive eating and emotional eating scores. In addition, regression analyzes were conducted to determine the effect of participant characteristics on emotional eating and restrictive eating scores.
CONCLUSIONS: In this study, it was aimed to determine the correlation of eating behaviors with clinical and demographic characteristics using DEBQ subscales. Increasing similar research will enable the identification of risk groups for the development of obesity and thus the possibility of early intervention before the disease develops.