A meta‐analysis assessing reliability of the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for compulsive eating and obesity

  • Published on 01/07/2025
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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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