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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 6.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Obes. 2021 Jan 7;11(3):e12435. doi: 10.1111/cob.12435

TABLE 2.

Final ADIA+ screening questions

Short-form for clinical use (the Adult Dietary Intake and Activity [ADIA] scale):
Activity 1 Think about your physical activity over the past month and include exercise, sports, walking to get places, and strenuous work (eg, pushing a lawnmower). How many days per week do you usually do moderate (eg, walking briskly) to strenuous (eg, running, biking) physical activity? [0–7 days]
Activity 2 On the days that you do physical activity, how long are you active (in minutes)?
• [Number 0–150]
Dietary 1 Based on your understanding of healthy eating, how would you describe your diet?
• Almost always healthy
• Healthy more often than unhealthy
• Healthy about half the time
• Unhealthy more often than healthy
• Almost always unhealthy
Longer form for (potential) clinical use and research studies (the ADIA+ scale):
Includes three measures above, plus the following:
Dietary 2  How often do you continue to eat after you feel full?
 • [Never, rarely, sometimes, often, very often]
Dietary 3  How often do you eat to cope with feelings of sadness, depression, or stress?
 • [Never, rarely, sometimes, often, very often]
Dietary 4  What do you wish you could change about your diet? Select up to two.
 • Increasing consumption of healthy foods
 • Decreasing consumption of unhealthy foods
 • Improving my portion control
 • Improving the frequency/timing of my eating
 • Improving my eating-related responses to negative emotions

Note: Activity measures combined to form a single measure of estimated weekly activity minutes.