Method to evaluate an adult eating behavior questionnaire

  Objective   Through analysis the reliability and validity of the Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire to develop a method to evaluate the preliminary questionnaire.

  Methods   100 adult residents from city and country were recruited as a convenience sample.Their eating behavior was assessed using the preliminary adult eating behavior questionnaire.To evaluate the reliability using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and Theta coefficient and the validity using the factor analysis.

  Results   The reliability of the questionnaire was good(Cronbach α=0.69, θ > 0.60).On the other way, 8 components were extracted using the factor analysis.It was just fit to the planning.

  Conclusion   The preliminary Adult Eating Behav ior Questionnaire almost include all subjects about eating behaviors.The ideal version is taken at last through remand the preliminary one and repeat the investigation several times.