Assessment of eating attitudes and dieting behaviors in healthy children: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE:The Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) is a self-report questionnaire that is conventionally summarized with a single score to identify "problematic" eating attitudes, masking informative variability in different eating attitude domains. This study evaluated the empirical support for single- versus multifactor models of the ChEAT. For validation, we compared how well the single- versus multifactor-based scores predicted body mass index (BMI). METHOD:Using data from 13,674 participants of the 11.5 year-follow-up of the Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) in the Republic of Belarus, we conducted confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the performance of 3- and 5-factor models, which were based on past studies, to a single-factor model representing the conv

SUBMITTER: Murphy TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6555678 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature