Wiedemann, A. A., Lawson, J. L., Cunningham, P. M., Khalvati, K. M., Lydecker, J. A., Ivezaj, V., & Grilo, C. M. (2018). Food addiction among men and women in India. European Eating Disorders Review, 26
(6), 597-604. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2613
From the research article’s abstract: “Objective This study aimed to address a cultural gap in the food addiction (FA) literature by examining FA and associated clinical features in a nonclinical group of men and women residing in India. Method Participants (N = 415) were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk to complete an online survey about weight and eating. Participants completed self-report measures assessing FA (Yale Food Addiction Scale [YFAS]), eating-disorder psychopathology (Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire [EDE-Q]), health-related quality of life (Short Form Health Survey—12-item version [SF-12]), and depression (Patient Health Questionnaire-2). Results The FA symptom mean was 3.53 (SD = 1.90); 32.5% (n = 129) met FA clinical threshold on the YFAS. Groups categorized with and without FA on the YFAS did not differ significantly in sex or body mass index.