School of Psychology, Pavillon Félix-Antoine-Savard, Laval University, 2325, rue des Bibliothèques, Quebec, QC, G1V 0A6, Canada.
Psychology and Psychoeducation Department, Pavillon Campus de Saint-Jérôme, Université du Québec en Outaouais, 5, rue St-Joseph, St-Jérôme, QC, J7Z 0B7, Canada.
Eat Weight Disord. 2021 Dec;26(8):2749-2756. doi: 10.1007/s40519-021-01158-9. Epub 2021 Mar 1.
Disordered eating attitudes and behaviors (DEAB) in childhood have been prospectively associated with eating disorders and obesity in adolescence. Therefore, evaluating DEAB in children with a reliable, sensitive and well-adapted scale is very important. The Children's Eating Attitudes Test (ChEAT) is one of the most popular measuring tools for DEAB in children, but no French version is available. Moreover, while completion time is an important factor to be considered when working with children, only one recent study proposed a shorter version of the ChEAT. Taking the previous works of Murphy and colleagues (2019) as a starting point, the current study aimed to provide the first French-speaking validated 14-item short version of the ChEAT.
A sample of 1092 boys and girls aged between 8 and 12 years old were recruited in two urban areas in the province of Quebec, Canada. They completed the ChEAT, and their height and weight were measured at school. Factorial structure and internal consistency were assessed.
After the initial factorial analysis, two "vomiting (or purging)" items were yielded as problematic and were thus removed from the analysis. The remaining 12 items provided a good fit to the data and a good internal consistency. Moreover, the factorial structure was proved to be invariant across sexes.
This study is the first to provide a French assessment of DEAB in elementary school children. The French short version of the ChEAT provided a quick and reliable assessment for DEAB with non-clinical children population and could be used as a screening tool, even though no cut-off was established yet.
Cross-sectional, descriptive study, Level V.
儿童时期饮食失调态度和行为（DEAB）与青少年时期的饮食失调和肥胖症存在前瞻性关联。因此，使用可靠、敏感且适应性良好的量表评估儿童时期的 DEAB 非常重要。儿童饮食态度测试（ChEAT）是评估儿童 DEAB 最常用的测量工具之一，但尚无法语版本。此外，虽然完成时间是与儿童合作时需要考虑的一个重要因素，但只有一项最近的研究提出了 ChEAT 的较短版本。本研究以 Murphy 及其同事（2019 年）的先前工作为起点，旨在提供 ChEAT 的第一个法语验证的 14 项简短版本。
在加拿大魁北克省的两个城市地区，招募了 1092 名 8 至 12 岁的男孩和女孩。他们在学校完成了 ChEAT 并测量了身高和体重。评估了因子结构和内部一致性。
在初始因子分析后，发现有两个“呕吐（或催吐）”项目存在问题，因此从分析中删除。其余 12 个项目与数据拟合良好，内部一致性良好。此外，因子结构被证明在性别间具有不变性。
这项研究首次提供了小学儿童 DEAB 的法语评估。ChEAT 的法语简短版本为非临床儿童群体提供了一种快速可靠的 DEAB 评估方法，可作为筛查工具使用，尽管尚未确定截止值。
横断面描述性研究，等级 V。
