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Objective: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is one of the mostfrequent eating disorders presentations. The primary symp-tom is recurrent episodes of binge eating, characterized by alarge amount of food in a short period and a sense of losingcontrol over eating. BED could contribute to the developmentof obesity and its complications. The study aimed to designand validate a scale to identify risk behaviors for BED.
Methods: An instrumental design was used to describe thedevelopment and initial validation of the new brief scale,BEDS. Participants were 345 adults who completed the self-report questions and reported BED episodes in the past threemonths.
Results: The BEDS was initially composed of 10 items toended up with 6 items due to analysis and exploratory factoranalysis (EFA). In the analysis process, 3 models were ex-plored within which a unidimensional model with 6 items wasmaintained. Likewise, reliability was adequate (α = 0.922; ω= 0.924). On the other hand, it was proved that the instru-ment correctly assesses binge eating behavior when compar-ing groups, where it was obtained that those who had identi-fied episodes of binge eating in their life maintained higheraverages in the test than those who did not present this prob-lem. Similarly, there were more episodes in women than inmen, and in those who presented burnout.
Conclusion: BEDS demonstrated adequate psychometricproperties and is useful for future research.
