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. 2019 Feb 20;8(2):e11002. doi: 10.2196/11002

Table 2.

Self-report and computerized cognitive assessments.

Type and measure name (acronym; number of items or minutes) Construct assessed
Online (Qualtrics) self-report measures

Perceived Stress Scale (PSS; 10 items) [41] Global perceptions of stress

Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-8; 8 items) [42] Depression symptoms

Reward-based Eating Drive (RED-9; 9 items) [43] Reward-based drive to eat (loss of control over eating, lack of satiety, and preoccupation with food)

Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait-Reduced (FCQ-T-R; 15 items) [44] Emotional food craving, preoccupation with food, loss of control over eating, and positive outcome expectancy

Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Stress Eating Items (MIDUS; 2 items) [45] How one’s eating changes in response to a stressful event: eating to feel better and eating more than usual

Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS; 19 items) [46] Social, conformity, enhancement, and coping-based motives for eating tasty food

Stress Eating (1 item) [47] Eating when under moderate stress

Weight Efficacy Lifestyle Questionnaire – Short Form (WEL-SF; 8 items) [48] Ability to adhere to a diet when in challenging situations (eg, socializing and peer pressure)

Loss of Control over Eating – Brief (LOCES-Brief; 7 items) [49] Loss of control over eating

Food Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (FAAQ; 10 items) [50] Acceptance of one’s motivations to eat

Modified Differential Emotions Scale (MDES; 20 items) [51] Positive and negative emotions

Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire, Restrained Eating Subscale (DEBQ-R; 10 items) [52] Restrained eating behavior

Five Factor Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ; 24 items) [53] Tendencies to be mindful in daily life

Promis-29 (29 items) [54] Multidimensional quality of life measure

Self-Compassion Scale Short Form (SCS-SF13; 12 items) [55] Self-kindness, self-judgment, common humanity, isolation, mindfulness, over-identification

Body Responsiveness Questionnaire (BRQ; 7 items) [56] Responsiveness to bodily sensations
Computerized cognitive measures

Delayed discounting (DD; 5 trials, 1 min) [57] Valuation of proximal versus delayed monetary rewards

Go/No-Go (GNG; 12 min) [58] Sustained attention and response inhibition

Food Stroop (5 min) [59] Food preoccupation

Relative reinforcing efficacy of food (RRE; 4 min) [60] Relative reinforcement value of tasty food

Dot probe (4 min) [61] Selective attentional processing for food versus nonfood stimuli