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Nutrición Hospitalaria

versión On-line ISSN 1699-5198versión impresa ISSN 0212-1611

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SANTOS-FLORES, Jesús Melchor et al. Psychometric validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children (YFAS-C) in Spanish in a Mexican population. Nutr. Hosp. [online]. 2024, vol.41, n.1, pp.38-46.  Epub 07-Mar-2024. ISSN 1699-5198.  https://dx.doi.org/10.20960/nh.04629.

Introduction:

Mexico is one of the countries with the highest prevalence of childhood obesity worldwide. The increase of addictive behaviors at an early age is a possible cause of its development. The Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children (YFAS-C) allows identifying children with food addictive behaviors.

Objective:

to validate the YFAS-C scale in Spanish in a population sample of Mexican children and adolescents.

Material and methods:

an exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was performed. The study sample consisted of 448 children from seven to 14 years of age. The first stage involved translation into Spanish; a second stage involved the solution of questions with discrepancies; then, a reverse translation into the original language and a review by experts on the subject of eating disorders in pediatric population were performed; and in the last stage, a pilot test in order to culturally adapt the instrument and the evaluation of the psychometric properties was carried out.

Results:

using the principal component extraction method, four components were identified that explained 47.1 % of the sample variance. In the confirmatory factor analysis, it was found that the goodness-of-fit indices met the required values (CFI = 0.906: GFI = 0.932; AGFI = 0.915, SRMS = 0.007 and RMSEA = 0.043).

Conclusions:

a validated Spanish version of the YFAS-C scale was obtained for Mexican children and adolescents to assess food addiction.

Palabras clave : Food addiction; Validation study; Child behavior; Addictive behavior; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; Overweight; Obesity.

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