Table II.

Well-Established Measures

	Age range	Number of items	Factor analysis	Interrater reliability
Parent-report measures
About Your Child’s  Eating—Revised	2–16 years	25	CFA Obesity .69–.82 Chronic illness .66–.86 Sickle–cell disease .74–.89 Feeding .78–.87 CS .75–.90
			EFA Chronic illness .72–.89 Cancer .70–.95
Behavioral Pediatrics Feeding  Assessment Scale	6 months–12 years	35	CFA Feeding .76–.78 CF .74–.88 Obesity .65–.78 T1DM .72–.87 ASD .77
			EFA T1DM .68–.79 Obesity .41–.95
Mealtime Behavior  Questionnaire	2–6 years	33	EFA CS .49–.81 CFA CS .73–.91
Direct observation schedules
Dyadic Interaction  Nomenclature for Eating	7 months–12 years			CF K .57–1.0; T1DM K .65–.90
The Feeding Scale	1–37 months		FA Feeding .34–.85	Feeding ICC .82–.92
Mealtime Family Interaction  Coding System	1–13 years		EFA Overweight .49–.78	Loss of control eating ICC .96–.97 Asthma ICC .76–.94 Overweight w/Asthma ICC .72–.85 CF ICC .62–.93 Overweight 74–.92
Mealtime Observation  Schedule	1–6 years			Feeding problems K .50–.99 CF K .71–.77

Note. CFA = confirmatory factor analysis; EFA = exploratory factor analysis; FA = factor analysis; K = Cohen's kappa coefficient; ICC = intraclass correlation; CS = community sample; ASD = autism spectrum disorder; T1DM = Type 1 diabetes mellitus; values represent factor loadings.