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 | |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
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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.
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AU - Innamorati, Marco
AU - Imperatori, Claudio
AU - Manzoni, Gian Mauro
AU - Lamis, Dorian A.
AU - Castelnuovo, Gianluca
AU - Tamburello, Antonino
AU - Tamburello, Stella
AU - Fabbricatore, Mariantonietta
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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