• María Delfina Marín-Soto, Cruz Vargas-De León, Nadia Mabel Pérez-Vielma, Margarita Castillo-Ramírez, Ángel Miliar-García, María Magdalena Murillo-Tovar, Bárbara Méndez-Peña, and Víctor Ricardo Aguilera-Sosa.
• Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Medicina; Ciudad de México, México.
• Gac Med Mex. 2020 Jan 1; 156 (1): 27-33.

IntroductionFood craving is a motivational and physiological response for eating specific foods, mainly with high caloric content. To assess food craving, self-reports, inventories and questionnaires are used. The Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait is multi-dimensionally structured and has been validated in several countries, since it is sensitive and adaptable to contextual-cultural changes.ObjectivesTo validate and standardize the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait in adults of Mexico City.MethodNon-experimental, cross-sectional, randomized study of 1059 subjects of both genders, between 18 and 84 years of age; 71.86 % of the female gender. Psychometric properties were examined with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses.ResultsThe domains of the questionnaire were reduced and the items were reorganized differently from the original version. The confirmatory factor analysis showed an adequate fit and acceptable standardization of factors. High internal consistency was found for the global questionnaire (a = 0.973 and rho = 0.975) for each one of the domains.ConclusionThis study determines the viability of the Food Cravings Questionnaire for the population of Mexico City.Copyright: © 2019 Permanyer.

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