Analysis of the Inter-Scale Agreement of Questionnaires to Assess the Emotional Eating in a Population of Polish Girls: PLACE-19 Study.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: Emotional eating is a tendency to increase food consumption in order to modify a negative emotional state, but little is known about this phenomenon or about the way to assess it. The aim of the study was to assess the emotional eating in the population of Polish girls using various questionnaires, in order to compare the results obtained while using various tools. Methods: The emotional eating was assessed in a sample of n = 771 girls (age 15-18 years) from a nationwide PLACE-19 Study population, recruited based on a random quota sampling of Polish secondary schools. The results were gathered within the Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI) and compared for four tools: Emotional Eating Scale for Children and adolescents (EES-C), Emotional Eatin

SUBMITTER: Guzek D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12899171 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature