Assessing the psychometric properties of two food addiction scales.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While food addiction is well accepted in popular culture and mainstream media, its scientific validity as an addictive behavior is still under investigation. This study evaluated the reliability and validity of the Yale Food Addiction Scale and Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale using data from two community-based convenience samples.

Methods

We assessed the internal and test-retest reliability of the Yale Food Addiction Scale and Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale, and estimated the sensitivity and negative predictive value of the Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale using the Yale Food Addiction Scale as the benchmark. We calculated Cronbach's alphas and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for internal reliability and Cohen's Kappa coefficients and 95% CIs for test-ret

SUBMITTER: Lemeshow AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5124537 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature