The Tunisian Center of Early Intervention in Psychosis, Department of Psychiatry "Ibn Omrane", Razi Hospital, 2010, Manouba, Tunisia.
University, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar , Tunis, Tunisia.
BMC Psychiatry. 2023 Feb 23;23(1):120. doi: 10.1186/s12888-023-04614-1.
There has been a drastic increase in the prevalence of obesity and its related diseases in the Arabic-speaking countries during the last decades along with a lack of public awareness about this awareness about this public health problem. This calls for the development of novel prevention and intervention strategies that are based on new approaches, including mindful eating. In this context, we aimed through this study to explore the factor structure, composite reliability, measurement invariance across sex, convergent and divergent validity of an Arabic translation of the Mindful Eating Behaviour Scale (MEBS).
A cross-sectional study carried out between September and November 2022, and enrolled 359 participants, all aged above 18 years old and recruited from all Lebanon governorates. The questionnaire used included socio-demographic questions, and the following scales: The Mindful Eating Behavior Scale (MEBS), Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES), Intuitive Eating Scale-2, and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS-8).
McDonald's ω values ranged from .82 to .95 or the four mindful eating domains, indicating the excellent internal consistency reliability of the scale. Our study also showed that fit indices from the confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the original four-factor structure model of the MEBS. Furthermore, our analyses suggested that configural, metric, and scalar invariance was supported across sex. Our results found no sex difference in all MEBS subscales scores. Finally, we found positive correlations between Focused eating, Hunger and satiety cues on one hand, and intuitive eating on the other hand. Moreover, greater Hunger and satiety cues scores were correlated with higher self-esteem and lower body mass index.
Our findings support the psychometric reliability and validity of the Arabic MEBS. We suggest, accordingly, that the scale will be of high clinical and research utility, and will help in the development of information-based interventions focused on mindful eating that are aimed to combat eating disorders and obesity in the Arab world.
在过去几十年中，阿拉伯语国家的肥胖症及其相关疾病的患病率急剧上升，而公众对此公共卫生问题的认识却很缺乏。这就需要制定新的预防和干预策略，这些策略基于新的方法，包括正念饮食。在这种情况下，我们通过这项研究旨在探索正念饮食行为量表（MEBS）阿拉伯语翻译版的结构因素、综合可靠性、性别间的测量不变性、收敛和发散有效性。
这是一项在 2022 年 9 月至 11 月进行的横断面研究，共纳入 359 名年龄在 18 岁以上的参与者，他们来自黎巴嫩所有省份。问卷包括社会人口学问题以及以下量表：正念饮食行为量表（MEBS）、罗森伯格自尊量表（RSES）、直觉饮食量表-2 和抑郁焦虑压力量表（DASS-8）。
McDonald's ω 值在四个正念饮食领域的范围从.82 到.95，表明该量表具有极好的内部一致性可靠性。我们的研究还表明，验证性因素分析的拟合指数证实了 MEBS 的原始四因素结构模型。此外，我们的分析表明，跨性别支持配置、度量和标度不变性。我们的结果发现，MEBS 所有分量表的得分在性别上没有差异。最后，我们发现专注饮食、饥饿和饱腹感线索与直觉饮食之间存在正相关。此外，更大的饥饿和饱腹感线索得分与更高的自尊和更低的体重指数相关。
我们的研究结果支持阿拉伯语 MEBS 的心理测量可靠性和有效性。因此，我们建议该量表将具有很高的临床和研究实用价值，并将有助于开发以正念饮食为重点的基于信息的干预措施，以应对阿拉伯世界的饮食失调和肥胖问题。
