Exploring the structural and construct validity of the Brazilian Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-reduced (FCQ-T-r)

Medeiros, Anna Cecília Queiroz de; Pedrosa, Lucía; Yamamoto, Maria Emília

doi:10.1590/1516-4446-2017-0019

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“…The FCQ-T-r has a unidimensional structure [58], which was replicated in several studies [26, 78-80, 82, 83]. The FCQ-T-r has excellent internal reliability (α > .90, [26,55,[78][79][80][81][82][83]). Retest-reliability over two weeks was excellent for the Persian version (r = .92, [81]) and-considering the long time period of six months-was also good for the German version (r = .74, [55]).…”

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“…For the FCQ-T-r, 15 of the 39 items of the German FCQ-T that had the highest item-total-correlations were chosen (Table 1). Although the FCQ-T-r was originally developed in German [58], it has since been used and evaluated in English [78], Portuguese [79], French [80], Persian [81], Spanish [26], and Italian [82,83] as well. A sum score of 50 discriminated between individuals with and without "food addiction" (as measured with the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0) with high sensitivity and specificity and has, thus, been proposed as a possible cut-off score that may indicate pathologically elevated, clinically relevant levels of trait food craving [84].…”

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Twenty Years of the Food Cravings Questionnaires: a Comprehensive Review

Meule

2020

Curr Addict Rep

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Purpose of Review The Food Cravings Questionnaires (FCQs; Cepeda-Benito, Gleaves, Williams, & Erath, 2000) are among the most widely used instruments for measuring food cravings. In addition to the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T) and the Food Cravings Questionnaire-State (FCQ-S), several modified versions have been developed as well. For their 20th anniversary, this article provides a comprehensive description of the FCQs and reviews studies on their psychometric properties and correlates. Recent Findings The FCQs and their modified versions have excellent internal reliability. Expectedly, the FCQ-T (and its derivatives) has higher retest-reliability than the FCQ-S as the FCQ-S is sensitive to situational changes such as food deprivation and food intake. However, while the FCQ-T is largely unaffected by such momentary states, it is also sensitive to change during weight-loss treatments and other interventions. Factor structure of the FCQ-T and FCQ-S has only partially been replicated. Construct validity of the FCQs is supported by experimental and longitudinal studies that measured food craving and food consumption in the laboratory and with ecological momentary assessment. Summary Numerous studies support reliability and validity of the FCQs and their modified versions, yet findings about their factor structures are inconsistent. Thus, using total scores or the short versions of the FCQs may be preferable.

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Twenty Years of the Food Cravings Questionnaires: a Comprehensive Review

Meule

2020

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“…The first family is composed of 13 original instruments [27,29,31–46] and 52 variations or translations [34,47–107] inspired by the QSU [27], the first validated multi‐dimensional craving assessment instrument. These instruments are self‐report questionnaires composed of 7‐point Likert scales.…”

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Measuring craving: A systematic review and mapping of assessment instruments. What about sexual craving?

Miele

Cabé

et al. 2023

Addiction

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Background and aimsCraving is central in the definition of addictive disorders because of its diagnostic and prognostic value. Its measurement is essential in clinical practice. Previous reviews provided a better overview of existing instruments; however, they do not consider emerging substances and behaviors such as sexual addictions. Our objectives were threefold: (1) to provide a systematic review of craving assessment instruments and their psychometric characteristics within a transdiagnostic approach, (2) to highlight and map their conceptual relationships and (3) to identify potential sexual craving assessment instruments.MethodsThe review was conducted using Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta‐Analyses (PRISMA) methodology. The PubMed, Embase, PsychInfo and Cochrane/Central databases were searched for publications that met the following inclusion criterion: validation studies of craving assessment instruments, regardless of target substance or behavior. The original search identified 4561 references and included 147 articles. Each selected study was a peer‐reviewed publication.ResultsThis review provides a synthesis of the psychometric properties of 36 original instruments and identified 93 variations of these instruments (e.g. translations). We were able to highlight five transdiagnostic families of instruments, each corresponding to a conceptual model. Only one instrument for assessing craving in the domain of compulsive sexual behavior, focused on pornography use, has been identified: the Pornography Craving Questionnaire.ConclusionThis review mapped all craving assessment instruments from a transdiagnostic perspective, finding 36 original instruments and 93 variations. The evolution of instruments to measure craving mirrors the evolution of the concept of craving which has progressively integrated cognitive, conditioning and sensory dimensions, and attests to the importance of the context of assessment. Development of an instrument to measure ‘sexual craving’ is needed and could be based on the data from our review.

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“…The fifteen items of FCQ-T with the higher item loading composed the FCQ-T-r belonging in a single factor. 28 Validations in different populations revealed one factor as well 31,33,40,41 with high interval consistency but also the full version of the questionnaire had been previously validated. However, PCA of the questionnaire performed on an English population revealed a two-factor structure which afterwards was rejected by parallel analysis.…”

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confidence: 99%