Validation d'une échelle d'attitudes alimentaires auprès d'une population québécoise francophone

Abstract

The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26) is one of the most frequently used screening questionnaires for anorexia and bulimia nervosa for use with clinical and general populations. Although the psychometric qualities of the instrument have been reported for the English version, little has been done to date to validate a French version. A french version of the EAT-26 was distributed to anglophone students and francophone students, as well as anglophone and francophone patients. Overall, the results demonstrated that the authors' French version has the same psychometric characteristics as the English version when used with clinical and non clinical populations. The overall test and its subscales differentiated between patients and non patients similarly in both linguistic groups. The internal consistency of the two versions, as assessed by Cronbach's alpha, was comparable. Among female high-school students, 14.1% of the anglophone students and 14.3% of the francophone students scored above the cutoff score for significant eating disorders behaviour.

The Body Image Avoidance Questionnaire: Assessment of its Construct Validity in a Community Sample of French Adolescents

“…Their answers were then recoded into transformed scores following the recommendations of Garner et al [24]: the six-point scale was recoded into a four-point scale ranging from 0 to 3 in which 0 is assigned to the three responses that represent the least symptomatic answers and 3 represents the most symptomatic answer. The French version of the EAT-26 [30] was validated on an adolescent and adult sample of clinical and nonclinical females (n=1,196) and provided results that were similar to those obtained with the original version. Indeed, the study of Leichner et al [30] confirmed the original factor structure and found modest to acceptable internal consistency coefficients, ranging from α=0.54 (oral control) to 0.86 (global scale).…”

“…The French version of the EAT-26 [24,30] was used in the fourth study as a selfreport inventory to evaluate the presence of disturbed eating behaviors. This instrument comprises a global scale and three subscales: (1) dieting, (2) bulimia and food preoccupation, and (3) oral control.…”

Controlled study of eating concerns and psychopathological traits in relatives of eating-disordered probands: Do familial traits exist?

“…Cronbachs alpha is .85, and a cutoff of 20 is felt to reliably identify maladaptive eating. Equivalence of the EAT-26 in English and (our own) French form is demonstrated according to factor structure, internal consistency, performance of cutoffs, and relationship to convergent measures (Leichner, Steiger, Puentes-Neuman, Perreault & Gottheil, 1994). High EAT-26 scores imply pathological response.…”

Container size influences snack food intake independently of portion size

“…Plate cleaning tendency, consumption monitoring and mood were translated into French and assessed on agreement scales anchored (À3) strongly disagree and (+3) strongly agree. Dieting behavior was assessed with the French translation (Leichner, Steiger, Puentes-Neuman, Perreault, & Gottheil, 1994) of the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26; Garner, Olmsted, Bohr, & Garfinkel, 1982). Binge eating was assessed by a question from the Eating Disorders Examination (Fairburn & Cooper, 1993): ''Have there been any times when you have eaten a large amount of food in a short amount of time and you had a sense of loss of control about your eating?''…”