Abstract
the emotional state influences the selection of foods that an individual consumes. In Colombia, no tool allows to detect the people most susceptible to develop emotional intake. to validate the Emotional Intake Questionnaire-Garaulet in a student population of the National University of Colombia. a cross-sectional descriptive observational study was conducted with a convenience sample of students in all the University's campuses in two stages employing the Spanish and the Colombian questionnaires through e-mail. Two questions were included in the survey, to assess the emotions of sadness and anxiety; a linearity relationship was established with the cut-off scores to maintain proportionality and preserve the dimensions of the study phenomenon. in phase 1, 1177 subjects participated, and in phase 2, 831 subjects participated. Of these, 63.6 % and 52.8 % were emotional and very emotional eaters in the Colombian and Spanish versions, respectively. Taking the total amount of people, 22.3 % were emotional and very emotional eaters with body mass index > 25 kg/m². In addition, 4.7 % had an eating disorder and 14.2 % had a psychiatric disorder. Finally, sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values were 99.0 %, 49.3 %, 89.9 % and 91.2 %, respectively. the Colombian version of the Emotional Eating Questionnaire demonstrates acceptable validity and reliability compared to the Spanish version. A high prevalence of emotional eaters was observed in the university population, which could be detected early through the use of this questionnaire. Suffering from this disorder is a risk factor for developing obesity and other metabolic diseases in the future.
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