Psychometric properties of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in overweight and obese patients

Marco Innamorati; Claudio Imperatori; Gian Mauro Manzoni; Dorian A. Lamis; Gianluca Castelnuovo; Antonino Tamburello; Stella Tamburello; Mariantonietta Fabbricatore

doi:10.1007/s40519-014-0142-3

Psychometric properties of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in overweight and obese patients

Marco Innamorati, Claudio Imperatori, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Dorian A. Lamis, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Antonino Tamburello, Stella Tamburello, Mariantonietta Fabbricatore

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Abstract

Aim: To assess the dimensionality and psychometric properties of an Italian version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) in a sample of obese/overweight patients attending low-energy diet therapy.

Methods: Participants were 300 overweight and obese patients who were admitted to a private medical center in Rome, Italy. Controls were 300 (231 women and 69 men) adults from the general population. All of the participants were administered the YFAS and the binge eating scale (BES).

Results: The one-factor model of the YFAS reported in previous studies did not fit the data [χ₂₀₉ ² = 466.69, p 2 ₁₀₄ = 174.56; p

Conclusion: The YFAS-16 assesses all of the “symptoms” represented in the original version and has satisfactory psychometric properties, although the percentage of food addiction diagnoses according to the YFAS-16 is lower than the percentage of diagnoses according to the original version of the questionnaire.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	119-127
Number of pages	9
Journal	Eating and Weight Disorders
Volume	20
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-014-0142-3
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Obesity
Overweight
Structural equation modeling
Yale Food Addiction Scale

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Psychiatry and Mental health
Clinical Psychology
Medicine(all)

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Psychometric properties of the Italian Yale Food Addiction Scale in overweight and obese patients. / Innamorati, Marco; Imperatori, Claudio; Manzoni, Gian Mauro; Lamis, Dorian A.; Castelnuovo, Gianluca; Tamburello, Antonino; Tamburello, Stella; Fabbricatore, Mariantonietta.

In: Eating and Weight Disorders, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2015, p. 119-127.

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