ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2018
Food cravings in food addiction: exploring a potential cut-off value of the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-reduced.
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- Questioning the validity of food addiction: a critical review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Clustering individuals' temporal patterns of affective states, hunger, and food craving by latent class vector-autoregression.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Article
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- Persian Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0: Psychometric Analysis and Setting Cutoff Point for the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-Reduced.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
- The affective priming paradigm as an indirect measure of food attitudes and related choice behaviour.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Article
- Food addiction and its relationship with disordered eating behaviours and obesity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
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- Food craving predicts the consumption of highly palatable food but not bland food.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeThe Food Cravings Questionnaires are among the most often used measures for assessing the frequency and intensity of food craving experiences. However, there is a lack of studies that have examined specific cut-off scores that may indicate pathologically elevated levels of food cravings.
methodsReceiver-Operating-Characteristic analysis was used to determine sensitivity and specificity of scores on the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-reduced (FCQ-T-r) for discriminating between individuals with (n = 43) and without (n = 389) "food addiction" as assessed with the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0.
resultsA cut-off score of 50 on the FCQ-T-r discriminated between individuals with and without "food addiction" with high sensitivity (85%) and specificity (93%).
conclusionsFCQ-T-r scores of 50 and higher may indicate clinically relevant levels of trait food craving. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, descriptive study.
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