Examining the construct validity of food addiction severity specifiers.

CONCLUSION: Our findings parallel the severity specifiers literature for eating and substance use disorders by also indicating the limited utility of severity specifiers based on symptom count. Future research should investigate alternative targets for discriminating among levels of FA. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level V, cross-sectional descriptive study. PMID: 32725535 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Eating and weight disorders : EWD - Category: Eating Disorders & Weight Management Authors: Tags: Eat Weight Disord Source Type: research