ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2025
Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire in a Danish sample of children with overweight and obesity.
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- Appetitive traits and long-term risk of disordered eating: a 3-year follow-up in children with overweight and obesity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
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purposeThe Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) is a reliable and widely used tool to assess eating behavior traits in children. However, currently no Danish version of the CEBQ exists. This study aimed to translate the CEBQ into Danish and investigate its psychometric properties and factor structure in children with overweight and obesity. Secondly, differences in eating behavior traits between children with overweight and obesity were explored.
methodsChildren (7-14 years) were recruited from a 10-week multicomponent lifestyle camp. Parents completed the CEBQ with their child before camp, and anthropometry was measured. CEBQ is scored from 1 to 5, with higher scores indicating a higher tendency toward a specific behavior. A confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was performed to test the original eight-factor structure. Internal reliability was assessed using McDonald's Omega.
resultsIn total, 190 children (12.3 ± 1.36 years) participated. The CFA confirmed the eight-factor model, with all items loading significantly on their respective factors. Internal reliability was acceptable for the full CEBQ scale (ω = 0.85) and most subscales (ω ≥ 0.70) but only moderate for Satiety Responsiveness (ω = 0.59) and Emotional Undereating (ω = 0.65). No statistically significant difference was found between children with overweight and obesity according to the Bonferroni-adjusted alpha.
conclusionsThe Danish CEBQ is a valid tool to assess eating behavior traits in Danish children with overweight and obesity; although, generalizability may be limited due to a relatively small sample size. Future studies should further validate the Danish CEBQ by assessing test-retest reliability, construct validity, and factor structure in a generalizable sample across weight categories. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, Cross-sectional, Psychometric study.
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