Overweight/obese people who have applied to a low-calorie diet an evaluation of the degree of depression and eating behaviour

The aim of this study is to investigate effect of the diet treatment on the degree of depression and eating behavior in overweight/obese people who applied to a low-calorie diet. This study was conducted on 18-50 age group adults, %55.1 total of 127 participants were females and %44,9 total of 127 the participants were males who voluntarily presented, applied to diet treatment in the Nutrition and Diet Service in Gaziantep 25 December Public Hospital between June 2018- October 2018. The participants were divided three groups as normal, overweight and obese according to their body mass index (BMI). BDI ( Beck Depression Inventory) and DEBQ (Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire) tools was applied as pre-test each groups. Then, over weight/obes participants were began the diet treatment. After 28 days, BDI and DEBQ tools was applied again as final test in overweight/ obese groups. The difference between normal, over weight and obese participants and BDI test results were found to be statistically significant (p=,001). The difference between the gender and emotional eating test scores were found to be statistically significant and women emotional eating scores higher than man (p=,002). As age increases emotional eating scores decreases (r=-,363 p=,000). As age increases external eating scores decreases (r=-,371 p=,000). As BDI score increases emotional eating score increases. The difference between BDI scores and emotional eating scores were found to be statistically significant (r=,271 p=,002). Consequently there was statistically significant relationship between as the BMI increases, BDI scores and emotional eating scores increases (p<0,01). Keywords: body mass index, obesity, diet treatment, the degree of depression, eating behavior