Peningkatan berat badan terus-menerus dapat meningkatkan risiko penyakitjantung koroner. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain studi prospective cohortselama enam minggu yang bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh perilaku makanrestrained eating, external eating, dan emotional eating terhadap peningkatanberat badan dengan mengontrol asupan energi, aktivitas fisik, dan sosial ekonomi.Penelitian melibatkan 40 responden yang merupakan mahasiswi S1 Reguler FKMUI Depok. Umumnya terdapat peningkatan berat badan yang bermakna sebesar0,32 kg. Selama pemantauan, terdapat 25% responden mengalami perubahanperilaku makan, dan sisanya konsisten. Dari ketiga perilaku makan, hanyaexternal eating yang berpengaruh bermakna terhadap peningkatan berat badansebelum dan setelah dikontrol dengan asupan energi (p<0,05).

Aktivitas fisik dan status sosial ekonomi tidak berhasil ditemukan sebagai confounding. Externaleating ditemukan paling berpengaruh terhadap peningkatan berat badan daripadaemotional eating dan restrained eating. Penelitian ini juga menemukan bahwaproporsi restrained eating lebih tinggi pada status gizi normal daripadaoverweight, emotional eating lebih tinggi pada underweight daripada overweight,dan external eating lebih tinggi pada status gizi normal dan underweight daripadaoverweight dan obesitas.

Kata Kunci:Peningkatan berat badan, restrained eating, external eating, emotional eating,studi kohort

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The continuous weight gain increases the risk of coronary heart disease. Thisresearch is a six-week prospective cohort study which is aimed to identify theeffect of eating styles restrained eating, external eating, and emotional eating toweight gain with controlling energy intake, physical activity, and social economystatus. A total of 40 female students were assessed at three points in this studyduring the whole six weeks. There is a significant weight gain in female studentsaveraged 0,32 kg. Twenty five percent of respondents experienced changes ineating style while the rest of them are consistent with one eating style. Out of alleating styles, the significant effect to weight gain is only found in external eatingbefore and after being controlled by energy intake (p<0,05).

Physical activity andsocial economy status could not be found as confounders in this study. Thisindicates that external eating, rather than emotional eating and restrained eating,drives weight gain in female college students. This study also found that theproportion of restrained eating is higher in normal weight than overweight,emotional eating is higher in underweight than overweight, and external eating ishigher in normal and underweight than overweight and obesity.

Keywords:Weight gain, restrained eating, external eating, emotional eating, cohort study.