Development and preliminary validation of a modified Food Craving Inventory for Pregnancy (FCI-P) in U.S. military active-duty Service women.

Food cravings during pregnancy are highly common, yet no measure of cravings has been validated among pregnant women. The current study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Food Craving Inventory (FCI) for use during pregnancy. U.

Incidence and prevalence of eating disorders among U.S. military service members, 2016-2021.

Objective: Despite unique experiences that may increase eating disorder risk, U.S. military service members are an understudied population.

Perceptions of an acceptance-based weight management treatment among adults living in rural areas.

Obesity and obesity-related comorbidities disproportionately affect rural communities. Research has emerged in support of a novel acceptance-based behavioural weight management treatment (ABT) that integrates the principles and procedures of acceptance-commitment therapy (ACT) with traditional components of standard behavioural treatment (SBT). The current study assessed the perceptions of community stakeholders in rural areas to session materials of a commercially available ABT program.

Emotional dysregulation moderates the relation between perceived stress and emotional eating in adolescent military dependents.

Objective: Adolescent children of US service members (i.e., military-dependent youth) face unique stressors that increase risk for various forms of disinhibited eating, including emotional eating.

Incidence and prevalence of eating disorders among active duty US military-dependent youth from 2016 to 2021.

Objective: The offspring of US military service members may be at increased risk for eating disorders. However, no epidemiological studies to date have evaluated eating disorder incidence rates and prevalence estimates among military-dependent youth.

Method: This retrospective cohort study examined eating disorder diagnoses in the military healthcare system (MHS) from 2016 through 2021.