Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Sakata Eating Behavior Scale short form and preliminary analysis of the factors related to the score of the scale

Pu Ge; Xinpei Wang; Siying Gao; Jiaxin Liu; Yuyao Niu; Mengyao Yan; Siyuan Fan; Qiyu Li; Jinzi Zhang; Xiaonan Sun; Fei Wang; Yike Sun; Wenli Yu; Xinying Sun; Lian Yu; Yibo Wu

doi:10.3389/fnut.2023.1076209

Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Sakata Eating Behavior Scale short form and preliminary analysis of the factors related to the score of the scale

Front Nutr. 2023 Mar 8:10:1076209. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2023.1076209. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Pu Ge¹, Xinpei Wang², Siying Gao³, Jiaxin Liu⁴, Yuyao Niu⁵, Mengyao Yan⁶, Siyuan Fan⁷, Qiyu Li⁸, Jinzi Zhang⁹, Xiaonan Sun⁹, Fei Wang¹⁰, Yike Sun¹¹, Wenli Yu¹², Xinying Sun¹³, Lian Yu¹⁴, Yibo Wu¹³

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China.
² Department of Medical Equipment, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China.
³ Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
⁴ Xiangya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, China.
⁵ Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau, Macao SAR, China.
⁶ School of Health Policy and Management, Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China.
⁷ Department of Preventive Medicine, Yanjing Medical College, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
⁸ School of Humanities and Health Management, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, China.
⁹ Department of Social Science and Humanities, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.
¹⁰ State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
¹¹ College of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Jining Medical University, Jining, China.
¹² School of Foreign Languages, Weifang University of Science and Technology, Weifang, China.
¹³ School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China.
¹⁴ School of Public Health, Health Care System Reform and Development Institute, Xi'an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, Xi'an, China.

Abstract

Background: The obesity rate in the Chinese population is increasing and there is a lack of short and reliable scales for measuring obesity-related eating behavior in China. The EBS-SF (Sakata Eating Behavior Scale short form) has only 7 entries and has shown good reliability in studies such as those in Japan.

Objective: To translate the EBS-SF into Chinese, check its reliability, validity and explore the related factors.

Method: The EBS-SF was translated into Chinese. 3,440 residents were investigated and 34 respondents were retested. Item analysis and reliability and validity tests were carried out. Personality characteristics, family health status and depression were investigated using the BFI-10, FHS-SF and PHQ-9 to investigate the factors associated with EBS-SF. The t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation was used to explore the related factors of its scores.

Result: Among 3,440 residents, 1,748 (50.81%) were male and 1,692 (49.19%) were female; 1,373 (39.91%) were aged 36-50 years. All 7 items were qualified in the item analysis. As for reliability, the Cronbach's α was 0.870, the split-half reliability was 0.830, the test-retest correlation coefficient was 0.868. As for the structural validity, the standardized factor loadings were above 0.50, χ² / df = 2.081,GFI = 0.999; NFI = 0.999; RFI = 0.996; RMSEA = 0.018, all qualified. The characteristics, personality, family health and depression were correlated with the score of the Chinese version of EBS short form.

Conclusion: The structural validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the EBS-SF are good and it can be used as a measurement tool to evaluate the eating behavior of Chinese. The scores of the EBS-SF may be related to the sociological characteristics, personality, family health, and depression status.

Keywords: BFI-10; cross-cultural adjustment; eating behavior; family health; reliability; validity.

Grants and funding

This research was supported by Annual Project of Shaanxi Provincial Social Science Foundation in 2022 (Grant no: 2022M090) and the scheme was approved by the Institutional Review Committee of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (JNUKY-2021-018). The funding sources had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, preparation of the manuscript, or publication of the study.