I am studying food addiction in obese adults and am trying to decide on which questionnaires I should use to assess the different variants of food addiction.
Dear Roni,
you can compare papers with these scales:
Article Eating Behaviour in the General Population: An Analysis of t...
Article Psychometric analysis of an eating behaviour questionnaire f...
Article Internal Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Dutch E...
Article Validation of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ)...
Hi Roni,
The YFAS, the TFEQ, and the DEBQ seem to be a good combination. I wonder if the following resources will interest you.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4179181/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15333731
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v33/n6/full/ijo200974a.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24177441
Great question. The only published scale I'm aware of that explicitly taps addictive eating/food addiction is the YFAS, but I concur that the other two scales mentioned (the DEBQ and TFEQ) are also definitely worth considering. The difficulty lies in the fact that there is no clear, consensus definition of what "addictive eating" is, or even "addiction." Here is a link to an early paper we published examining this issue among women with binge-eating disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17719677
Great question. The only published scale I'm aware of that explicitly taps addictive eating/food addiction is the YFAS, but I concur that the other two scales mentioned (the DEBQ and TFEQ) are also definitely worth considering. The difficulty lies in the fact that there is no clear, consensus definition of what "addictive eating" is, or even "addiction." Here is a link to an early paper we published examining this issue among women with binge-eating disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17719677
Great question. The only published scale I'm aware of that explicitly taps addictive eating/food addiction is the YFAS, but I concur that the other two scales mentioned (the DEBQ and TFEQ) are also definitely worth considering. The difficulty lies in the fact that there is no clear, consensus definition of what "addictive eating" is, or even "addiction." Here is a link to an early paper we published examining this issue among women with binge-eating disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17719677
Great question. The only published scale I'm aware of that explicitly taps addictive eating/food addiction is the YFAS, but I concur that the other two scales mentioned (the DEBQ and TFEQ) are also definitely worth considering. The difficulty lies in the fact that there is no clear, consensus definition of what "addictive eating" is, or even "addiction." Here is a link to an early paper we published examining this issue among women with binge-eating disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17719677
Great question. The only published scale I'm aware of that explicitly taps addictive eating/food addiction is the YFAS, but I concur that the other two scales mentioned (the DEBQ and TFEQ) are also definitely worth considering. The difficulty lies in the fact that there is no clear, consensus definition of what "addictive eating" is, or even "addiction." Here is a link to an early paper we published examining this issue among women with binge-eating disorder.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17719677
Thank you colleagues. Your comments are helpful. I eventually decided to use the YFAS, both DEBQ and TFEQ-18, and EDE-Q-I with the 3 questions assessing BED.
Dear Roni,
Please avoid Questionnaires and other forms of memory-based dietary assessment methods. My work demonstrated these methods to be pseudo-scientific (i.e., non-falsifiable) and produce physiologically implausible (i.e., meaningless) data with no relation to actual dietary intake. Please see:
Archer E, Marlow ML, Lavie CJ. Controversy and Debate: Memory based Methods Paper 1: The Fatal Flaws of Food Frequency Questionnaires and other Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2018.
Archer E, Marlow ML, Lavie CJ. Controversy and Debate: Memory-Based Dietary Assessment Methods Paper #3. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. 2018.
Archer E, Pavela G, Lavie CJ. The Inadmissibility of What We Eat in America and NHANES Dietary Data in Nutrition and Obesity Research and the Scientific Formulation of National Dietary Guidelines. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 2015;90(7):911-926.
Best of luck,
Ed
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