ArticleEating behaviors2008
Structure analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test in overweight and at-risk for overweight children and adolescents.
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- Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT): a validation study in Finnish children.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- The relative importance of social anxiety facets on disordered eating in pediatric obesity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Assessment of eating attitudes and dieting behaviors in healthy children: Confirmatory factor analysis of the Children's Eating Attitudes Test.The International journal of eating disorders · 2019Article
- Assessing the causal role of adiposity on disordered eating in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood: a Mendelian randomization analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Article
- Perceived Body Image, Eating Behavior, and Sedentary Activities and Body Mass Index Categories in Kuwaiti Female Adolescents.International journal of pediatrics · 2016Article
- Prospective associations of parental smoking, alcohol use, marital status, maternal satisfaction, and parental and childhood body mass index at 6.5 years with later problematic eating attitudes.Nutrition & diabetes · 2014Article
- Comparing disordered eating and feeding practices in African American and Caucasian treatment-seeking youth with obesity.Eating disordersArticle
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Abstract
backgroundIn school-based samples of children, the Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) has a four-factor structure; however, previous studies have not examined its factor structure in samples restricted to overweight youth.
methodsThe ChEAT was administered to 220 overweight (BMI>or=95th percentile) and 45 at-risk for overweight (BMI 85th-<95th percentile) children and adolescents. Factors were identified by a principal component analysis with varimax rotation. ChEAT factor scores of children with BMI>or=85th percentile were contrasted with those of 152 non-overweight (BMI 5th to <85th percentile) children and adolescents.
resultsFactor analysis generated four subscales described as 'body/weight concern,' 'food preoccupation,' 'dieting,' and 'eating concern.' ChEAT total score, body/weight concern, and dieting subscale scores were positively related to BMI-Z and body fat mass (p's<.05). Compared to non-overweight children, overweight and at-risk for overweight children had higher ChEAT total (9.9+/-7.4 vs. 6.6+/-7.8, p<.001), body/weight concern (3.2+/-3.1 vs. 1.3+/-3.0, p<.001), and dieting (1.8+/-2.2 vs. .8+/-2.3, p<.001) subscale scores.
conclusionsThe previously elucidated factor structure of the ChEAT was primarily supported in a sample of overweight children. The emergence of separate body/weight concern and dieting subscales may relate to these children's experiences with attempted weight reduction.
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