Table 4. Individual Night Eating Questionnaire (NEQ) items, most popular response and correlation with basic characteristics and Night Eating Syndrome (NES).

Items	No. of responses (n)	Percentage (%)	Most popular response (%)	p-value
				Gender	Age (years)	BMI (kg/m2)	Level of education	Self-esteem level
1. How hungry are you usually in the morning?	395	100	Moderately (29.0)	0.570	0.022	0.850	0.024	0.005
2. When do you usually eat for the first time?	395	100	Before 9 am (41.7)	0.011	0.561	0.323	0.689	0.131
3. Do you have cravings or urges to eat snacks after supper, but before bedtime?	395	100	Somewhat (27.3)	0.201	0.778	0.100	0.972	0.033
4. How much control do you have over your eating between supper and bedtime?	395	100	Some (31.8)	0.363	0.013	0.037	0.110	0.954
5. How much of your daily food intake do you consume after suppertime?	395	100	1-25% (Up to a quarter) (50.0)	0.079	0.027	0.459	0.459	0.524
6. Are you currently feeling blue or down in the dumps?	395	100	Not at all (31.8)	<0.001	0.500	0.003	0.072	<0.001
7. When you are feeling blue, is your mood lower in the:	395	100	Late evening/Nighttime (34.5)	0.693	0.463	0.103	0.167	0.017
8. How often do you have trouble getting to sleep?	395	100	Sometimes (50.4)	0.983	0.472	0.099	0.140	<0.001
9. Other than only to use the bathroom, how often do you get up at least one in the middle of the night?	395	100	Never (41.0)	0.536	0.138	0.118	0.947	0.001
10. Do you have cravings or urges to eat snacks when you wake up at night?	245	62.0	Not at all (52.1)	0.669	0.001	0.039	0.298	0.033
11. Do you need to eat to get back to sleep when you wake up at night?	245	62.0	Not at all (68.5)	0.686	<0.001	0.114	0.001	0.038
12. When you get up in the middle of the night, how often do you snack?	245	62.0	Never (54.2)	0.625	<0.001	0.015	0.052	0.021
13. How much control do you have over your eating while you are up at night?	245	62.0	Complete (27.7%)	0.698	0.014	0.055	0.201	0.597