A meta‐analysis assessing reliability of the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for compulsive eating and obesity
- Published on 01/07/2025
- Reading time: 7 min.
Haitham Jahrami 1,2, Waqar Husain 3, Khaled Trabelsi 4,5, Achraf Ammar 6,7, Seithikurippu R. Pandi‐Perumal 8,9, Zahra Saif 1, Marc N. Potenza 10, Chung‐Ying Lin 11, Amir H. Pakpour 12
1
Government Hospitals
Manama
Bahrain
2
Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences
Arabian Gulf University
Manama
Bahrain
3
Department of Humanities
COMSATS University Islamabad
Islamabad
Pakistan
4
High Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Sfax
University of Sfax
Sfax
Tunisia
5
Research Laboratory: Education, Motricity, Sport and Health, EM2S, LR19JS01
University of Sfax
Sfax
Tunisia
6
Department of Training and Movement Science
Institute of Sport Science
Mainz
Germany
7
Research Laboratory, Molecular Bases of Human Pathology, LR19ES13, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax
University of Sfax
Sfax
Tunisia
8
Centre for Research and Development
Chandigarh University
Mohali
Punjab
India
9
Division of Research and Development
Lovely Professional University
Phagwara
Punjab
India
10
Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the Child Study Center and Wu Tsai Institute
Yale School of Medicine/Yale University
New Haven
CT
USA
11
Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan
Taiwan
12
Department of Nursing, School of Health and Welfare
Jönköping University
Hälsohögskolan
Jönköping
Sweden
Summary
Food addiction (FA) is linked to eating disorders and obesity. The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), which has various versions in different languages, is widely used to assess FA worldwide. This meta‐analysis aimed to assess the YFAS through reliability generalization meta‐analysis (REGEMA). From their inception until April 2024, a comprehensive systematic review across more than 30 databases was conducted to identify studies reporting reliability measures (e.g.,...
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