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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms and Food Addiction in Women by Timing and Type of Trauma Exposure
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IMPORTANCE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appears to increase obesity risk but the pathways by which PTSD leads to weight gain are not known. Identification of the links between PTSD and obesogenic eating behaviors is necessary to clarify this pathway and inform development of obesity prevention strategies in PTSD-affected populations. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether women with PTSD symptoms are more likely to report food addiction, a measure of perceived dependence on food, than women without PTSD symptoms. Also, to determine whether age at PTSD symptom onset and type of trauma influence the PTSD-food addiction association. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: Cross-sectional analysis of 49,408 participants in the Nurses' Health Study II, a cohort comprising women nurses who were aged 25 to 42 years at the 1989 recruitment from 14 US states. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES: The Nurses' Health Study II ascertained lifetime trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms in 2008 and current food addiction in 2009. Food addiction was defined as 3 or more clinically significant symptoms on a modified version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale. Confounder-adjusted prevalence ratios and 95% CIs were estimated using modified Poisson regression. RESULTS: Approximately 80% of the study sample reported some type of trauma exposure, with 66% of the trauma-exposed participants reporting at least 1 lifetime PTSD symptom. Eight percent of the cohort met the criteria for food addiction. The prevalence of food addiction increased with the number of lifetime PTSD symptoms, and women with the greatest number of PTSD symptoms (6-7 symptoms) had more than twice the prevalence of food addiction as women with neither PTSD symptoms nor trauma histories (prevalence ratio, 2.68; 95% CI, 2.41-2.97). Symptoms of PTSD were more strongly related to food addiction when symptom onset occurred at an earlier age. The PTSD-food addiction association did not differ substantially by trauma type. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Symptoms of PTSD were associated with increased food addiction prevalence in this cohort of women. Strategies to reduce obesity associated with PTSD may require psychological and behavioral interventions that address dependence on food and/or use of food to cope with distress.
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“Higher numbers of PTSD symptoms predict increased prevalence of FA and the strength of this association increased when symptom onset occurred at an earlier age [11].”
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“In this study (n = 49,408), the PTSD-FA association did not differ substantially by trauma type, suggesting that all forms of ELA impact reward-related behaviors.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Mason, S. M., Flint, A. J., Roberts, A. L., Agnew-Blais, J., Koenen, K. C., & Rich-Edwards, J. W.
- Affiliations
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mason, Susan M.
- Venue
- JAMA Psychiatry
- Publisher
- American Medical Association (AMA)
- Published
- 2014-11-01
- Volume
- 71
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 1271
- ISSN
- 2168-622X (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4341890
- OpenAlex
- W2138752769
- Cited by
- 113
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 12.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- JAMA Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL064108, R01HL081557)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041023)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- post-traumatic stress disorder, food addiction, trauma exposure, women, age at symptom onset, trauma type, obesity, dietary habits, Yale Food Addiction Scale, Nurses' Health Study II
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Food, Health Surveys, Humans, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Wounds and Injuries, Prevalence, Behavior, Addictive, Age of Onset, Young Adult
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