The Florence Emotional Eating Drive (FEED): a validation study of a self-report questionnaire for emotional eating.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Emotional eating is a trans-diagnostic dimension in eating disorders and is present in many other conditions that could affect eating attitudes. At present, there is no instrument that measures emotional eating evaluating both the intensity and the frequency of emotion-induced desire to eat. The aim of the study was the validation of the Florence Emotional Eating Drive (FEED).

Methods

A sample of healthy volunteers was initially enrolled to explore internal consistency and test-retest reliability. The Emotional Eating Scale (EES), Eating Disorders Evaluation-Questionnaire (EDE-Q), Binge Eating Scale (BES) and Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90-R), together with the final version of FEED, were administered to a clinical sample composed by patients with eating disorders, obe

SUBMITTER: Cassioli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8933357 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature