THE STUDY OF EATING BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN OF PRE-PUBERTAL AGE WITH THE PATHOLOGY OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
31 children aged 3-11 years (mean age 7.42 ± 0.542 years, 15 boys, 16 girls) with various gastrointestinal diseases were examined: hypertension of the esophagus veins (1 person), encopresis (1 person), jaundice (1 person), celiac disease (6 people), ulcerative colitis (4 people), dyspeptic disorders (9 people), agenesis of the biliary tract (1 person), Crohn's disease (8 people). The average value of the family cohesion scale, according to the FACES-3 methodology, corresponded to the divided level of family relations, and the average value of adaptation to a chaotic level (a divided-chaotic profile of family functioning). This suggests a balanced nature of the relationship between individual family members, but a disadaptive level of the functioning of the family as a whole. A study of the parents of patients using the Family Alarm technique showed that none of the subscales ("Wines", "Anxiety", "Tension") reached the diagnostic level (the sum of the scores was 5 or more). Therefore, one can not speak about the expressed level of anxiety among family members of the children surveyed. The study using the "Scale of Food Behavior" (DEBQ) method showed that the excess of reference values was noted only in the subscale "Emotional eating behavior", hence this type of eating behavior prevailed in the parents of the children surveyed. The results of the correlation analysis showed that the emotional eating behavior of parents was directly related to overeating in children. Some features of eating behavior in children were associated with this or that type of family functioning. Thus, the tendency to overeating was associated with a high level of family cohesion. The relationship of such characteristics as high sensitivity to saturation with slow rate of food intake, food selectivity, emotional malnutrition, high level of family tension and severity of child anxiety is shown.