ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2023
Validation of a Farsi version of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory (F-EPSI) among Iranian adolescents.
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- Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Farsi Version of the Nine-Item Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Screen (F-NIAS): Age, Sex, Weight, and Urbanization Group Differences in Disorder Risk Among Adolescents.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Factor Structure, Internal Consistency, and Measurement Invariance of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory (EPSI) in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adults.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties of the German version of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Validation of the eating pathology symptoms inventory (EPSI) in Swedish adolescents.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Fear of COVID-19, insomnia, and eating disorder symptoms among Iranian college students.Journal of affective disorders reports · 2023Article
- Validation of a Farsi version of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (F-EDE-Q) in adolescents and university students from Iran.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeLimited research has validated eating pathology assessments in Iranian adolescent boys and girls. In particular, the measures that have been validated do not capture both boys' and girls' eating behaviors in adolescence. The purpose of the current study was to validate a Farsi version of the Eating Pathology Symptoms Inventory (F-EPSI) for use in Iranian adolescents.
methodsParticipants (N = 913; 85.3% girls) were adolescents who completed a battery of questionnaires including the F-EPSI. In addition, F-EPSI data for Iranian adolescents were compared with those of previously published data of adult Iranian college students.
resultsConfirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) indicated that the F-EPSI had an acceptable fit to the data and supported the eight-factor model. The scale was invariant by gender, weight status, eating disorder, and age groups. Boys reported higher scores than girls on the Excessive Exercise, Muscle Building, Body Dissatisfaction, and Binge Eating subscales. Adolescents with higher weight and eating disorder symptoms endorsed higher scores on the F-EPSI subscales. Older adolescents and adults reported higher scores than younger adolescents and adolescents, respectively. Adolescents had higher scores than adults on Restricting and Excessive Exercise subscales. The F-EPSI demonstrated good convergent validity through correlations with other eating pathology symptoms. The F-EPSI subscales were associated with depression and body mass index (zBMI) in expected directions that indicate criterion validity of the scale.
conclusionsFindings suggest that the F-EPSI is a reliable and valid measure in Iranian non-clinical adolescents. The F-EPSI will enable researchers to examine a broad array of eating pathology symptoms in adolescents for whom Farsi is their official language. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V; Cross-sectional descriptive study.
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