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Abstract

Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten in genetically predisposed individuals. In this sense, a gluten-free diet is the only safe treatment available. Due to the restrictions resulting from this eating pattern, this treatment may impair the relationship of the people with CD with food, increasing the risk of a disordered eating attitude, which is associated with eating disorders. The EAT-26 is a validated instrument already applied worldwide in different populations, and higher scores are suggestive of eating attitudes prone to evolve into eating disorders. Studies carried out in other countries have already shown that people with CD are prone to developing eating disorders; however, no study has been carried out with this theme in the population with CD in Brazil. We carried out a nationwide cross-sectional study in three steps: (i) study design and instrument; (ii) recruitment of participants and ethics; (iii) statistical analysis. A total of 385 participants were included in our sample, 96.36% of them being women. The internal consistency of the applied self-administered Brazilian version of the EAT-26 online questionnaire presented a satisfactory Cronbach’s alpha of 0.812, and in total, 36.1% of the respondents were classified with a disordered eating attitude. No differences were found among the scores of participants when divided by categories regarding gender, average monthly income, age, and educational level. However, scores classified as a disordered eating attitude were found in respondents with a body mass index classified as overweight and obese. Our study highlights that disordered eating attitudes are present in overweight and obese women with celiac disease; thus, public health politics are needed to prevent and treat these attitudes.

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Title
Eating Attitudes of Patients with Celiac Disease in Brazil: A Nationwide Assessment with the EAT-26 Instrument
Author
Franco, Luiza 1 ; Nakano, Eduardo Yoshio 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Raposo, António 3   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Alturki, Hmidan A 4   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Alarifi, Sehad N 5 ; Chaves, Cláudia 6   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Teixeira-Lemos, Edite 7   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Romão, Bernardo 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Instituto de Educação Superior de Brasilia, IESB University Center, Brasília 70200-730, Brazil; [email protected] 
 Department of Statistics, University of Brasília (UnB), Brasília 70910-900, Brazil; [email protected] 
 CBIOS (Research Center for Biosciences and Health Technologies), Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Campo Grande 376, 1749-024 Lisboa, Portugal 
 General Directorate for Funds & Grants, King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology, Riyadh 11442, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] 
 Department of Food and Nutrition Science, Al-Quwayiyah College of Sciences and Humanities, Shaqra University, Shaqraa 11971, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] 
 ESSV, Centre for Studies in Education and Innovation (CI&DEI), Polytechnic University of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal; [email protected] 
 CERNAS Research Centre, Polytechnic University of Viseu, 3504-510 Viseu, Portugal; [email protected] 
First page
4796
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
e-ISSN
20726643
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2893161059
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.