{"doi":"10.1111/ijpo.12851","title":"Associations of sleep with food cravings and <scp>loss‐of‐control</scp> eating in youth: An ecological momentary assessment study","abstract":"BACKGROUND: Inconsistent sleep patterns may promote excess weight gain by increasing food cravings and loss-of-control (LOC)-eating; however, these relationships have not been elucidated in youth. OBJECTIVE: We tested whether sleep duration and timing were associated with food cravings and LOC-eating. METHOD: For 14 days, youths wore actigraphy monitors to assess sleep and reported severity of food cravings and LOC-eating using ecological momentary assessment. Generalized linear mixed models tested the associations between weekly and nightly shifts in facets of sleep (i.e., duration, onset, midpoint, and waketime) and next-day food cravings and LOC-eating. Models were re-run adjusting for relevant covariates (e.g., age, sex, adiposity). RESULTS: Among 48 youths (12.88 ± 2.69 years, 68.8% female, 33.3% with overweight/obesity), neither weekly nor nightly facets of sleep were significantly associated with food cravings (ps = 0.08-0.93). Youths with shorter weekly sleep duration (est. ß = -0.31, p = 0.004), earlier weekly midpoints (est. ß = -0.47, p = 0.010) and later weekly waketimes (est. ß = 0.49, p = 0.010) reported greater LOC-eating severity; findings persisted in adjusted models. CONCLUSIONS: In youth, weekly, but not nightly, shifts in multiple facets of sleep were associated with LOC-eating severity; associations were not significant for food cravings. Sleep should be assessed as a potentially modifiable target in paediatric LOC-eating and obesity prevention programs.","journal":"Pediatric Obesity","year":2021,"id":175692,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":22,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9636,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2021-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":422626,"name":"Sarah LeMay‐Russell","orcid":"0000-0002-8033-657X","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":276850,"name":"Natasha A. Schvey","orcid":"0000-0002-3136-6713","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":274180,"name":"Ross D. Crosby","orcid":"0000-0001-9131-1629","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":717512,"name":"Eliana Ramirez","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":422627,"name":"Nichole R. Kelly","orcid":"0000-0003-0812-4182","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":422622,"name":"Lisa M. Shank","orcid":"0000-0002-6922-7946","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":402282,"name":"Meghan E. Byrne","orcid":"0000-0002-4745-649X","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":287442,"name":"Scott G. Engel","orcid":null,"position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":422623,"name":"Taylor N. Swanson","orcid":"0000-0001-7161-4980","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":717513,"name":"Kweku G. Djan","orcid":null,"position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":717514,"name":"Esther A. Kwarteng","orcid":null,"position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":716956,"name":"Loie M. Faulkner","orcid":"0009-0001-8494-3617","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":434576,"name":"Anna Zenno","orcid":"0000-0001-7502-6422","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":402284,"name":"Sheila M. Brady","orcid":"0000-0002-2333-3575","position":14,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":367546,"name":"Susan Z. Yanovski","orcid":"0000-0002-6843-1670","position":15,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":276849,"name":"Marian Tanofsky‐Kraff","orcid":"0000-0003-3871-2233","position":16,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":402285,"name":"Jack A. Yanovski","orcid":"0000-0001-8542-1637","position":17,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":422628,"name":"Megan N. Parker","orcid":"0000-0003-2511-199X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":47,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T23:47:15.431199Z","pmid":"34498417","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}