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Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland
Introduction: Obesity is increasingly diagnosed in pre-school and early primary school children. Eating styles displayed by the youngest children may contribute to the development of overweight and obesity. Their assessment may be extremely important in diagnosing the causes of obesity, but also in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9693564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36432467 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14224782 |
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author | Malczyk, Żaneta Kuczka, Oliwia Pasztak-Opiłka, Agnieszka Zachurzok, Agnieszka |
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description | Introduction: Obesity is increasingly diagnosed in pre-school and early primary school children. Eating styles displayed by the youngest children may contribute to the development of overweight and obesity. Their assessment may be extremely important in diagnosing the causes of obesity, but also in planning treatment. Aim of the study: In view of the need to introduce a tool for assessing eating behaviours in children in Poland, the aim of the study was to develop the Polish adaptation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ). Material and methods: The study group consisted of 151 mothers of children aged 3–10 years (M = 6.77, SD = 2.34), who completed the Polish version of the CEBQ. In order to assess the validity of the questionnaire, a factor analysis was conducted, using the principal components method with the Oblimin rotation and Kaiser normalization. To assess the reliability of the questionnaire, its internal consistency was checked by calculating Cronbach’s alpha consistency coefficient. The external validity of the CEBQ was also checked by correlating its scales with those of the Temperament Questionnaire (EAS-C). Results: The principal components analysis extracted an eight-factor scale from the 35 items of the questionnaire in which a total of 60.57% of the common variance was explained. The validity of such an eight-factor solution was confirmed by the Kaiser method. Satisfactorily high values of Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient were obtained (0.78). Positive correlations were found between emotionality and emotional undereating and overeating, between shyness and fussiness and negative correlations between activity and slowness in eating, sociability and fussiness and slowness in eating and between shyness and enjoyment of food. Conclusions: The Polish version of the CEBQ is characterized by the acceptable validity and reliability and has a satisfactory criterion accuracy; therefore, it can be used as a psychometric tool to assess eating behaviours in Polish children. |
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spelling | pubmed-96935642022-11-26 Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland Malczyk, Żaneta Kuczka, Oliwia Pasztak-Opiłka, Agnieszka Zachurzok, Agnieszka Nutrients Article Introduction: Obesity is increasingly diagnosed in pre-school and early primary school children. Eating styles displayed by the youngest children may contribute to the development of overweight and obesity. Their assessment may be extremely important in diagnosing the causes of obesity, but also in planning treatment. Aim of the study: In view of the need to introduce a tool for assessing eating behaviours in children in Poland, the aim of the study was to develop the Polish adaptation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ). Material and methods: The study group consisted of 151 mothers of children aged 3–10 years (M = 6.77, SD = 2.34), who completed the Polish version of the CEBQ. In order to assess the validity of the questionnaire, a factor analysis was conducted, using the principal components method with the Oblimin rotation and Kaiser normalization. To assess the reliability of the questionnaire, its internal consistency was checked by calculating Cronbach’s alpha consistency coefficient. The external validity of the CEBQ was also checked by correlating its scales with those of the Temperament Questionnaire (EAS-C). Results: The principal components analysis extracted an eight-factor scale from the 35 items of the questionnaire in which a total of 60.57% of the common variance was explained. The validity of such an eight-factor solution was confirmed by the Kaiser method. Satisfactorily high values of Cronbach’s alpha internal consistency coefficient were obtained (0.78). Positive correlations were found between emotionality and emotional undereating and overeating, between shyness and fussiness and negative correlations between activity and slowness in eating, sociability and fussiness and slowness in eating and between shyness and enjoyment of food. Conclusions: The Polish version of the CEBQ is characterized by the acceptable validity and reliability and has a satisfactory criterion accuracy; therefore, it can be used as a psychometric tool to assess eating behaviours in Polish children. MDPI 2022-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9693564/ /pubmed/36432467 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14224782 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Malczyk, Żaneta Kuczka, Oliwia Pasztak-Opiłka, Agnieszka Zachurzok, Agnieszka Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland |
title | Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland |
title_full | Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland |
title_fullStr | Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland |
title_short | Validation of the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire in Poland |
title_sort | validation of the children’s eating behaviour questionnaire in poland |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9693564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36432467 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu14224782 |
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