Development and validation of the Binge Eating Disorder Scale (BEDS)

• Tania ARAUCO-LOZADA ^[1] ; Daniel E. YUPANQUI-LORENZO ^[1] ; Tatiana OTTINIANO-MÁLAGA ^[2]
  1. [1] Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades

     Universidad de Ciencias y Humanidades

     Perú

     
  2. [2] Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazon, Lima, Perú
• Localización: Nutrición clínica y dietética hospitalaria, ISSN 0211-6057, Vol. 44, Nº. 2, 2024, págs. 61-66
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Objective: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is one of the mostfrequent eating disorders presentations. The primary symp-tom is recurrent episodes of binge eating, characterized by alarge amount of food in a short period and a sense of losingcontrol over eating. BED could contribute to the developmentof obesity and its complications. The study aimed to designand validate a scale to identify risk behaviors for BED.

    Methods: An instrumental design was used to describe thedevelopment and initial validation of the new brief scale,BEDS. Participants were 345 adults who completed the self-report questions and reported BED episodes in the past threemonths.

    Results: The BEDS was initially composed of 10 items toended up with 6 items due to analysis and exploratory factoranalysis (EFA). In the analysis process, 3 models were ex-plored within which a unidimensional model with 6 items wasmaintained. Likewise, reliability was adequate (α = 0.922; ω= 0.924). On the other hand, it was proved that the instru-ment correctly assesses binge eating behavior when compar-ing groups, where it was obtained that those who had identi-fied episodes of binge eating in their life maintained higheraverages in the test than those who did not present this prob-lem. Similarly, there were more episodes in women than inmen, and in those who presented burnout.

    Conclusion: BEDS demonstrated adequate psychometricproperties and is useful for future research.