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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Autism. 2024 Feb 2;28(9):2381–2393. doi: 10.1177/13623613241227518

Table 2.

Distribution of Feeding Challenge Severity (FEAST Total Score) and FEAST Subscale Scores

FEAST Score Min Max Mean SD

FEAST Total Score (n = 427) 32 137 74.49 15.77
FEAST Subscale Scores
 Sensory 1.00 4.88 2.80 0.73
 Behavior 1.00 4.27 2.26 0.66
 Oral Motor 1.00 4.25 2.01 0.70
 Gastrointestinal 1.00 4.67 2.18 0.76

Note: Feast Total Score is a raw score within a possible range of 32 to 160. FEAST Subscale raw scores are converted into mean item scores ranging from 1 to 5 to allow for comparison across subscales with different numbers of items.