Structural validation of ORTO-11-ES for the diagnosis of orthorexia nervosa, Spanish version.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The ORTO-11-ES questionnaire is a tool to assess the pathological obsession displayed by some individuals regarding healthy eating. The aims of this study were (1) to confirm the factor structure of the Spanish version of ORTO-11-ES using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and (2) to examine the possible association between the ORTO-11-ES score, gender and body mass index (BMI).

Methods

The sample comprised 492 students from the University of Castilla la Mancha, Spain. Of these, 280 were women (56.9%). Participants were surveyed using the ORTO-11-ES questionnaire.

Results

The confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the 11 elements and 3 domains of this tool as the better fitting model; for the Comparative Fit Index (CFI) and the Tucker-Lewis Index (TLI),

SUBMITTER: Parra-Fernandez ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6244547 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature