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Assessment of Night Eating

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Encyclopedia of Feeding and Eating Disorders

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Nocturnal Eating Assessment; Night Eating Evaluation

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The key to a clinical assessment of night eating is a basic understanding of what night eating syndrome (NES) is and for what function the night eating is being assessed. NES is a pattern of eating that results in a delay in the circadian timing of food intake. Research diagnostic criteria have been established by a panel of eating and sleep disorder experts (Allison et al. 2010) and include the core features of evening hyperphagia (i.e., consumption of ≥25% of one’s total daily food intake after the evening meal) and/or nocturnal awakening and ingestions of food (≥ two episodes per week); awareness of the night eating behavior; three of the five associated appetite, mood, and sleep features; and distress or impairment in functioning resulting from the night eating behavior. The symptoms must occur for at least three months duration. NES is included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders...

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  1. Department of Psychology, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 5030 Cherry Hall, Kansas City, MO, 66410, USA

    Jennifer D. Lundgren & Ashleigh Pona

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  1. School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia

    Tracey Wade

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Lundgren, J.D., Pona, A. (2017). Assessment of Night Eating. In: Wade, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Feeding and Eating Disorders. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-104-6_129

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