Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak

Haddad, Chadia; Zakhour, Maha; Bou kheir, Maria; Haddad, Rima; Al Hachach, Myriam; Sacre, Hala; Salameh, Pascale

doi:10.1186/s40337-020-00317-0

Journal of Eating Disorders

Table 3 Bivariate analysis taking the eating behaviors as the dependent variables in the total sample

From: Association between eating behavior and quarantine/confinement stressors during the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak

	EDE restraint subscale		EDE eating concern subscale		EDE shape concern subscale		EDE weight concern subscale
	M ± SD	p- value	M ± SD	p-value	M ± SD	p-value	M ± SD	p-value
Groups of participants
Participants from the general population group	1.13 ± 1.42	0.051	0.83 ± 1.12	< 0.001	1.45 ± 1.46	< 0.001	1.13 ± 1.38	< 0.001
Dietitian clients group	1.45 ± 1.74	0.051	1.30 ± 1.28	< 0.001	2.09 ± 1.78	< 0.001	1.78 ± 1.62	< 0.001
Abide to the home quarantine
Yes	1.34 ± 1.63	0.335	1.07 ± 1.22	0.555	1.86 ± 1.70	0.121	1.50 ± 1.58	0.298
No	1.19 ± 1.50	0.335	1.00 ± 1.21	0.555	1.60 ± 1.56	0.121	1.34 ± 1.47	0.298
Closed and prolonged coexistence with the family
Yes	1.32 ± 1.59	0.636	1.16 ± 1.31	0.565	1.90 ± 1.75	0.610	1.60 ± 1.70	0.891
No	1.42 ± 1.62	0.636	1.26 ± 1.36	0.565	2.01 ± 1.78	0.610	1.63 ± 1.53	0.891
Financial difficulty due to quarantine/confinement
Yes	1.54 ± 1.70	0.076	1.44 ± 1.44	0.005	2.25 ± 1.98	0.009	1.90 ± 1.86	0.015
No	1.23 ± 1.52	0.076	1.04 ± 1.23	0.005	1.74 ± 1.60	0.009	1.45 ± 1.54	0.015
Difficulty buying desired food
Yes	1.47 ± 1.84	0.309	1.46 ± 1.55	0.010	2.21 ± 1.94	0.042	1.84 ± 1.86	0.080
No	1.28 ± 1.48	0.309	1.06 ± 1.19	0.010	1.80 ± 1.66	0.042	1.51 ± 1.58	0.080
Lack of physical contact with friends
Most of the time	1.55 ± 1.67	0.058	1.28 ± 1.48	0.058	2.21 ± 1.88	0.001*	1.88 ± 1.82	< 0.001*
Some of the time	1.07 ± 1.42		1.26 ± 1.28		2.24 ± 1.53		1.95 ± 1.44
Rarely	1.21 ± 1.57		1.36 ± 1.26		1.86 ± 1.57		1.59 ± 1.54
Never	1.11 ± 1.48		0.92 ± 1.02		1.43 ± 1.56		1.12 ± 1.40
Constant sense of insecurity for themselves and loved ones
Yes	1.49 ± 1.67	0.101	1.58 ± 1.60	< 0.001	2.39 ± 1.99	< 0.001	2.01 ± 1.93	< 0.001
No	1.23 ± 1.53	0.101	0.88 ± 0.97	< 0.001	1.58 ± 1.47	< 0.001	1.32 ± 1.39	< 0.001
Physical exercise practice during quarantine/confinement
Yes	1.68 ± 1.70	< 0.001	1.31 ± 1.40	0.011	2.06 ± 1.76	0.045	1.76 ± 1.68	0.021
No	0.84 ± 1.26	< 0.001	0.99 ± 1.16	0.011	1.71 ± 1.73	0.045	1.38 ± 1.63	0.021
	Correlation coefficient	p-value	Correlation coefficient	p-value	Correlation coefficient	p-value	Correlation coefficient	p-value
Length of quarantine/confinement in days	0.073	0.142	0.080	0.106	0.109	0.027	0.113	0.023
Number of adults living in the quarantine/confinement	0.069	0.164	0.086	0.083	0.108	0.028	0.106	0.032
Number of children living in the quarantine/confinement	0.013	0.789	0.014	0.773	−0.029	0.556	−0.043	0.387
Fear of COVID-19 scale	0.120	0.015	0.237	< 0.001	0.246	< 0.001	0.192	< 0.001
Short Boredom Proneness scale	0.035	0.484	0.254	< 0.001	0.253	< 0.001	0.250	< 0.001
Anxiety scale	0.064	0.194	0.357	< 0.001	0.332	< 0.001	0.304	< 0.001
Anger scale	0.044	0.373	0.191	< 0.001	0.202	< 0.001	0.186	< 0.001

*Bonferroni post-hoc analysis: Association between lack of physical contact with friends and shape concern subscale: Most of the time vs. some of the time p = 1.000, most of the time vs. rarely p = 1.000, most of the time vs. never p < 0.001, some of the time vs. rarely p = 1.000, some of the time vs. never p = 0.231, rarely vs. never p = 0.773
Association between lack of physical contact with friends and weight concern subscale: Most of the time vs. some of the time p = 1.000, most of the time vs. rarely p = 1.000, most of the time vs. never p < 0.001, some of the time vs. rarely p = 1.000, some of the time vs. never p = 0.152, rarely vs. never p = 0.475.
p-value marked in bold are significant (Less than 0.05)

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