Exploring differences in perceived barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccine uptake and testing intention by vaccination status and testing hesitancy among rural Latino communities in Southwest Florida.

Background: Identifying factors impacting vaccination and testing for COVID-19 is crucial to reduce health disparities, especially for rural/agricultural, low access and high poverty Latino communities disproportionately affected by the pandemic. This study examined differences in perceived barriers and facilitators (such as values, beliefs, and concerns) to COVID-19 vaccine uptake and testing intention by vaccination status and testing hesitancy among rural Latino community members in Southwest Florida.

Methods: Rural Latino community members ( = 493) completed a cross-sectional survey in Spanish (86.

Further validation of the visceral sensitivity index: Psychometric properties and utility for predicting disordered eating in a diverse university sample.

Gastrointestinal (GI) visceral sensitivity (i.e., anxiety/worry over GI sensations) may be a key maintaining factor for disordered eating; however, it is unknown whether GI visceral sensitivity predicts the range of disordered eating behaviors in nonclinical samples.

Unification of the food and alcohol disturbance literature: A systematic review.

Food and alcohol disturbance (FAD) reflects the functional relationship between disordered eating and alcohol use. There are two motivations underlying FAD - to enhance the effects of alcohol and/or to compensate for alcohol-related calories. Yet, most FAD studies have failed to adequately measure the motives underlying these behaviors, leading to inconsistent and imprecise findings.

Perceived Responsibility for Bariatric Surgery, Eating, and Exercise Behaviors Among Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Candidates.

Adolescents' perceived responsibility for weight management behaviors has yet to be studied in relation to bariatric surgery. The current study examined perceived responsibility to pursue bariatric surgery and engage in specific weight management behaviors among adolescents seeking bariatric surgery and its associations with demographic, family support, and eating disorder symptoms. Data were collected using retrospective chart review of adolescent bariatric surgery candidates presenting to a tertiary interdisciplinary clinic.

Food approach and avoidance craving: A partial test of the Ambivalence Model of Craving.

Accumulating evidence from both cross-sectional and cue-reactivity studies supports the application of the Ambivalence Model of Craving (AMC) from the substance use literature to food craving. The focus of this extant work has been on the association between the two dimensions of food craving (approach and avoidance) and disordered eating behaviors. The present study extended existing validity data by investigating approach and avoidance food craving profiles and their associations with 1) disordered eating behaviors and 2) thinness/restriction and eating expectancies - a risk factor for disordered eating that is explicitly described by the AMC.

Examining compulsive exercise as a risk factor for eating disorder symptoms in first-year college students using a latent change score modeling approach.

Objective: Research suggests that both compulsive exercise and eating disordered behaviors increase during college. Despite strong cross-sectional associations between compulsive exercise and eating disorders, it is unknown if compulsive exercise is a variable risk factor for eating disorders or simply a correlate. It was hypothesized that increases in compulsive exercise would significantly and prospectively predict increases in overall number of eating disorder symptoms over the study period.

Training Promotoras to Implement a Mindfulness-Based Healthy Lifestyle Program in Rural Communities.

Partnering with promotoras to implement a healthy lifestyle intervention has proven efficacious in reaching community members whom they serve. However, there are no clearly defined guidelines for implementing promotora training, especially when it involves developing mindfulness skills in promotoras unfamiliar with this concept. This is a report about the facilitators and barriers to training promotoras to implement a mindfulness-enhanced healthy eating and physical activity intervention, ADAPT+, using the Train-the-Trainer model.

Adolescent Females' Dyadic Conversations About Body, Weight, and Appearance.

Body talk among adolescent females has been associated with negative outcomes, including depressed mood, disordered eating, and body dissatisfaction. Yet, little work has investigated the manifestation of body talk in actual conversations between adolescent females or explored pathways through which body talk is spread (e.g.

Visceral sensitivity, hunger responsiveness, and satiety responsiveness: Associations between facets of gastrointestinal interoception and disordered eating profiles in an undergraduate sample.

This preregistered study examined associations between empirically derived profiles of disordered eating in a diverse nonclinical sample and three facets of gastrointestinal (GI) interoception (visceral sensitivity, hunger responsiveness, satiety responsiveness). University students (n = 591; 53.3% women; 23.

Comparing Group Versus Individual Prenatal Care on Breastfeeding Practice and Motivational Factors.

Objective: Although breastfeeding in the first 6 months postpartum benefits both infants and mothers, breastfeeding rates remain low. This study examined whether group prenatal care was associated with an increased breastfeeding initiation and duration compared with those receiving usual, individual prenatal care. A secondary aim was to investigate whether sociodemographic and motivational factors were associated with breastfeeding initiation and duration across prenatal care groups.

Delivering ADAPT+ to Latino Families Living in Rural Communities: Feasibility and Acceptability of Implementing a Health Promotion Program Including Mindfulness.

Background: Obesity is a major public health crisis in Latino youth. Mounting evidence implicates stress in the development and maintenance of obesity. This study examined the feasibility and acceptability of having community health workers, i.

Anxiety, body dissatisfaction, and exercise identity: Differentiating between adaptive and compulsive exercise.

Objective: Little is known about psychosocial variables that may be differentially associated with compulsive exercise versus adaptive exercise. The current study simultaneously examined associations of exercise identity, anxiety, and body dissatisfaction with both compulsive and adaptive exercise behaviors and investigated which construct may account for the most unique variance in compulsive and adaptive exercise. Hypotheses were that: 1) body dissatisfaction, anxiety, and exercise identity would be significantly associated with compulsive exercise and 2) exercise identity would be significantly associated with adaptive exercise.

Examination of the two-step water load test as a measure of gastric interoception and associations with eating and weight/shape concerns in a nonclinical sample.

Objective: The current study extended research examining the validity of the two-step Water Load Test (WLT-II), an objective, laboratory-based measure of gastric interoception, by investigating the validity of the WLT-II in a nonclinical sample and testing its contribution to the prediction of eating and weight/shape concerns.

Methods: Participants (n = 129, 73.6% cisgender female, M = 20.

Women's disordered eating and sexual function: the role of interoception.

Background: Among women, disordered eating and sexual difficulties commonly co-occur.

Aim: We investigated whether interoceptive dysfunction (ie, altered processing of body cues) may be a common cause (ie, third variable) contributing to these concomitant outcomes above and beyond body mass index (BMI) and body image concerns.

Methods: Women (n = 1201; mean age = 25.

Testing a Biobehavioral Model of Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease in Hispanic Older Adolescents.

The biobehavioral model of food insecurity and chronic disease posits that stress perpetuates the cycle of food insecurity and chronic disease, in part, through changes in eating behaviors and weight gain. The current study conducted a preliminary test of the biobehavioral model in a sample of Hispanic older adolescents. It was hypothesized that older adolescents experiencing food insecurity would report greater depressive symptoms, which would be associated with more disordered eating, which would be associated with worse cardiometabolic indicators.

Athlete-specific risk factors for the development of disordered eating behaviors in first-year college athletes.

Objective: The current study tested whether proposed sport-related risk factors for disordered eating behaviors were associated with increases in disordered eating over first-year college athletes' first four months of collegiate sport participation.

Participants: Participants included a sample of first-year college athletes ( = 59, 45% female) from a Division I National Collegiate Athletics Association (DI) university.

Method: This follow-up study tested whether 1) wearing a uniform that emphasizes body concerns, 2) participating in a lean sport, and 3) perceived pressure for thinness from coaches and teammates would lead to increases in weight/shape concerns and disordered eating behaviors over the first four months of collegiate sport participation.

Food for thought: Examining the relationship between low calorie density foods in Instagram feeds and disordered eating symptoms among undergraduate women.

Background: Ample studies have tested how viewing bodies on social media impacts eating disorder symptoms; however, the relationship between viewing food images on social media and disordered eating remains understudied. This study investigated whether viewing images of healthy, palatable food on Instagram impacted disordered eating attitudes across two samples of undergraduate women.

Methods: This pre-registered online study was conducted at two sites.

Testing the interaction of thinness/restriction and negative affect reduction expectancies on disordered eating behavior.

Objective: Thinness/restriction expectancies (i.e., perceived rewards from thinness/dietary restriction) and negative affect reduction expectancies (i.

Boredom proneness, interoception, and emotional eating.

Emotional eating is associated with weight gain and difficulty losing weight during weight loss interventions. Theoretical and empirical work suggest boredom may be an important predictor of problematic eating behaviors. Yet, little work has examined the role of boredom in emotional eating.

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivations as moderators of the association between exercise frequency and exercise behavior.

Purpose: Motivations underlying exercise may contribute to the extent to which exercise is maladaptive, independent of exercise frequency. Extrinsic and intrinsic exercise motivation may independently moderate associations between exercise frequency and 1) compulsive and 2) healthy exercise. It was expected that among individuals with high extrinsic motivation, greater exercise frequency would be associated with more compulsive exercise, whereas among individuals with high intrinsic motivation, greater exercise frequency would be associated with more healthy exercise.