Validation of a questionnaire on emotional eating for use in cases of obesity; the Emotional Eater Questionnaire (EEQ);Validación de un cuestionario de comedores emocionales para uso en casos de obesidad; cuestionario de comedor emocional (CCE)

Nutricion Hospitalaria

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 645-651

  Garaulet, M ^a   Canteras, M ^a   Morales, E ^a   Lopez Guimera G ^b   Sanchez Carracedo D ^b   Corbalan Tutau M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotional eater; Obesity; Questionnaire; Validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; EMOTION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPAIN; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; EMOTIONS; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPAIN;

EID: 84858723821     PISSN: 02121611     EISSN: 16995198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3305/nh.2012.27.2.5659     Document Type: Article

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