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ArticlePsychiatry investigation2021

Persian Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0: Psychometric Analysis and Setting Cutoff Point for the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-Reduced.

Hourvash Haghighinejad, Minoo Tarakemehzadeh, Peyman Jafari, Mahtab Jafari, Mani Ramzi, Arvin Hedayati

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Article in Psychiatry investigation, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. 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 · 2025
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  5. Questioning the validity of food addiction: a critical review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hourvash HaghighinejadDepartment of Family Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Minoo TarakemehzadehShiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Peyman JafariDepartment of Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mahtab JafariShiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mani RamziHematology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Arvin HedayatiDepartment of Psychiatry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences · IR

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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences 97-01-01-16993
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveThe aims of this study were to evaluate the psychometric properties of Persian translation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS 2.0) as a widely accepted questionnaire for the first time and to establish a cut off score for Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait-reduced (FCQ-T-r).

methodsIn this cross-sectional study, 330 visitors of family physician clinics in Shiraz, a city located in south of Iran, were selected. The English version of YFAS 2.0 was translated into Persian and used in this study as well as the Persian version of FCQ-T-r.

resultsConfirmatory factor analysis of YFAS-2 confirmed one dimensional structure and factor loading in all eleven symptoms was above 0.4. Internal consistency for eleven symptoms was 0.813. Prevalence of food addiction in participants was 6.7% (22 participants). BMI and FCQ-T-r questionnaire score both were positively correlated with the number of food addiction symptoms but age was negatively correlated with the number of the symptoms. The ROC curve analysis showed the best suggested cut-off point for FCQ-T-r questionnaire to detect food addiction was 32.5.

conclusionThe present study confirmed validity and reliability of Persian version of YFAS-2. It is suggested that food addiction occurs in different level of food craving behavior in different food cultures or genetics.

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Food addictionFood cravingFood Cravings Questionnaires Trait-reducedYale Food Addiction Scale 2.0

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