Validating the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire for Children (DEBQ-C) among Korean children and adolescents with high weight

Journal of Eating Disorders

Research

Jia Kim¹  Kyung Hee Park²  Na Young Kim³  Jieun Kim³  Kumhee Son⁴  Hyunjung Lim⁴  Sarah Woo⁵  Sooyeon Suh⁶ 

[1] Department of Clinical Psychology, National Mental Health Center, 04933, Seoul, Korea;Department of Family Medicine, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, 14068, Anyang, Korea;Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, 17104, Yongin, Korea;Department of Medical Nutrition, Graduate School of East-West Medical Science, Kyung Hee University, 17104, Yongin, Korea;Research Institute of Medical Nutrition, Kyung Hee University, 02447, Seoul, Korea;Department of Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Hallym University, 24252, Chuncheon-Si, Korea;Department of Psychology, Sungshin Women’s University, 02844, Seoul, Korea;

关键词: Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire-Children (DEBQ-C);    Overeating;    Validity;    Children;    Adolescents;    Obesity;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s40337-023-00894-w

 received in 2022-06-30, accepted in 2023-09-15,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundUsing reliable measurement tools is becoming increasingly important as the prevalence of obesity among children increases in Korea. The Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire for Children (DEBQ-C) measures three eating behaviors associated with overeating. This study aims to validate the DEBQ-C for use among Korean children and adolescents with high body weight. It examines the psychometric features of the Korean translation of the DEBQ-C and investigates the relationship between the subscale scores of the DEBQ-C and the weight status of participants (categorized into overweight, obese, and morbidly obese).MethodsA total of 233 children and adolescents (mean age: 11.4 ± 1.6 years) completed the questionnaire. The study verified the factor structure of the DEBQ-C using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and estimated its internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha. For convergent validity, it employed Pearson’s correlation coefficient to assess relationships between the three eating behaviors of the DEBQ-C and the number of food addiction symptoms of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children (YFAS-C). Lastly, it examined the relationship between DEBQ-C scores and weight status via multinomial logistic regression analysis.ResultsThe three-factor model demonstrated goodness-of-fit (χ2 = 253, df = 167, χ2/df = 1.515, p < 0.001, CFI = 0.944; TLI = 0.937; RMSEA = 0.047). The internal consistency of the three eating behaviors was also satisfactory (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.707–0.890). The emotional and external eating subscales of the DEBQ-C were positively correlated with the number of symptoms of food addiction of the YFAS-C. Emotional (OR: 2.008; 95% CI 1.973–2.043) and external (OR: 2.074; 95% CI 2.029–2.119) eating were positively associated with obesity status.ConclusionThe results suggest that the Korean version of the DEBQ-C is suitable for the examination of problematic eating behaviors in Korean children and adolescents with high body weight.

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