ArticleRevista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999)
Psychometric properties of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 in a large Brazilian sample.
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- A meta-analysis assessing reliability of the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for compulsive eating and obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
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- Physical complaints and emotional symptoms in the context of series watching: a multicenter latent profile and network analysis in Brazil and Canada.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- Socio-demographic, dietary, exercise, and mental health factors associated with food addiction symptoms in university students.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2025Article
- First do no harm: the impact of assessing for ultra-processed food addiction on dietary restraint in patients with and without eating disorders during residential treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Food addiction and its associations with mental and physical health comorbidities and with quality of life in the general population.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Impact of Maternal Nutritional Status and Mental Health on Children with Obesity: Relationship Between Anthropometric Parameters, Food Addiction, and Stress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Psychiatric Comorbidities Associated with Food Addiction in Post-Bariatric Patients: Toward Personalized Mental Health Screening and Postoperative Care.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Article
- Food Addiction 5 and 10 Years Following Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: a Prospective Observational Study.Obesity surgery · 2025Observational
- Ultra-processed food addiction symptoms profile according to weight status among Brazilian adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Binge-type eating disorders and ultra-processed food addiction: phenomenology, pathophysiology and treatment implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Addiction to ultra-processed foods as a mediator between psychological stress and emotional eating during the COVID-19 pandemic.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2024Article
- Reliability and validity of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (mYFAS 2.0) in a sample of individuals with depressive disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Translation, transcultural adaptation, and convergent validity of the Arabic version of the Mukbang addiction scale.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
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- Brazilian Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Individuals with Severe Obesity.Obesity surgery · 2024Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe field of food addiction has attracted growing research attention. The modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (mYFAS 2.0) is a screening tool based on DSM-5 criteria for substance use disorders. However, there is no validated instrument to assess food addiction.
methodsThe mYFAS 2.0 has been transculturally adapted to Brazilian Portuguese. The data for this study was obtained through an anonymous web-based research platform: participants provided sociodemographic data and answered Brazilian versions of the the mYFAS 2.0 and the Barratt Impulsivity Scale (BIS-11). Analysis included an assessment of the Brazilian mYFAS 2.0's internal consistency reliability, factor structure, and convergent validity in relation to BIS-11 scores.
resultsOverall, 7,639 participants were included (71.3% females; age: 27.2±7.9 years). The Brazilian mYFAS 2.0 had adequate internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.89). A single factor solution yielded the best goodness-of-fit parameters for both the continuous and categorical version of the mYFAS 2.0 in confirmatory factor analysis. In addition, mYFAS 2.0 correlated with BIS-11 total scores (Spearman's rho = 0.26, p < 0.001) and subscores.
conclusionThe Brazilian mYFAS 2.0 demonstrated adequate psychometric properties in our sample; however, future studies should further evaluate its discriminant validity.
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