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- Food craving is an intense-compulsive response to eating highly appetizing foods. The Food Cravings Questionnaire-State (FCQ-S) is the most used instrument for its diagnosis. It is a multidimensional instrument, sensitive and adaptable to contextual and cultural changes.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38096861/Intense craving for eat: standardization of the Food Cravings ...
Feb 12, 2020 · The Food Cravings Questionnaire–State (FCQ–S) measures the intensity of momentary food craving. The questionnaire has 15 items and response categories range from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree (Table 2 ).
- Adrian Meule
- ameule@med.lmu.de
- 2020
Food craving refers to an intense desire to consume a specific food [1]. This specificity differentiates it from general feelings of hunger, which can be alleviated by consumption of any type of food [2]. Craved foods usually have a high energy density due to their high carbohydrate and/or fat content.
The FCQs were designed to assess the multidimensional nature of food craving and, thus, assess several aspects such as emotions before a food craving is experienced or before eating, affective responses after eating, thoughts about food, or loss of control over food consumption.
Mar 4, 2014 · The FCQ-T-r constitutes a succinct, valid and reliable self-report measure to efficiently assess experiences of food craving as a trait. Keywords: Food Cravings Questionnaire; body mass index; dieting success; food craving; food-cues; psychometric properties; reliability; validity.
- Adrian Meule, Tina Hermann, Andrea Kübler
- 2014
Mar 1, 2020 · Purpose of Review The Food Cravings Questionnaires (FCQs; Cepeda-Benito, Gleaves, Williams, & Erath, 2000) are among the most widely used instruments for measuring food cravings. In...
- Adrian Meule
Jan 1, 2019 · The Food Craving Questionnaire–Trait (FCQ-T) assesses external cues that may trigger food craving, emotions that may trigger or be experienced during craving, physiological deficits and responses that may elicit craving, preoccupation with food, outcome expectancies of positive and negative reinforcement, intentions and plans related to ...
Mar 18, 2014 · The Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T) is the most commonly used instrument to assess food cravings as a multidimensional construct. Its 39 items have an underlying nine-factor structure for both the original English and Spanish version; but subsequent studies yielded fewer factors.
