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Examining the Relationship Between Pain Intensity and Emotional Eating Among Latinos in a Federally Qualified Health Center: The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity

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There is limited understanding of pain and its relationship to emotional eating among Latinos as well as knowledge about potential mechanisms that may underlie their association. We explored whether anxiety sensitivity (fear of the negative consequences of anxiety) explained the relation between pain intensity and emotional eating among a sample of Latinos. Participants were 79 (87.3% female; Mage = 42.04, SD = 12.01) predominately female Latino attendees of a Federally Qualified Health Center. As hypothesized, results indicated that pain intensity yielded a significant indirect effect through anxiety sensitivity for emotional eating. Alternative models wherein anxiety sensitivity served as the predictor and pain intensity as the indirect effect were also significant. Such novel data highlight the potential bi-directional relationship between pain intensity and anxiety sensitivity in terms of emotional eating. Overall, pain intensity and anxiety sensitivity may serve as mechanisms that underlie emotional eating among Latino adults.

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Funding was provided by National Institute on Drug Abuse (Grant No. 1F31DA046127-01).

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, Texas, 77204-5502, USA

    Brooke Y. Kauffman, Andrew H. Rogers, Jafar Bakhshaie, Nubia A. Mayorga & Michael J. Zvolensky

  2. Legacy Community Health, Houston, Texas, USA

    Monica Garza, Melissa Ochoa-Perez & Chad Lemaire

  3. Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

    Michael J. Zvolensky

  4. Health Institute, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

    Michael J. Zvolensky

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Kauffman, B.Y., Rogers, A.H., Bakhshaie, J. et al. Examining the Relationship Between Pain Intensity and Emotional Eating Among Latinos in a Federally Qualified Health Center: The Role of Anxiety Sensitivity. J Immigrant Minority Health 21, 1217–1223 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-019-00862-0

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