Intense craving for eat: standardization of the Food Cravings Questionnaire-State in Mexico

Background: Food craving is an intense-compulsive response to eating highly appetizing foods.The Food Cravings Questionnaire-State (FCQ-S) is the most used instrument for its diagnosis.It is a multidimensional instrument, sensitive and adaptable to contextual and cultural changes.Objective: To standardize the FCQ-S in the adult population of Mexico City.Method: Non-experimental, cross-sectional, at convenience design, with 1059 adults of both sexes, aged 18-84 years.It is highlighted that 71.9% of the participants were women.Results: A reliability coefficient of 0.95 was obtained, the correlations between the items were from r = 0.598 to r = 0.793.With the exploratory factorial analysis, an MKO of sampling adequacy of 0.943 was obtained, and with the Bartlett sphericity test a p = 0.000.The factors explain 78.61% of the total variation of the data.The RMSEA was 0.068, which indicates an acceptable fit.The CFI was 0.974, considered good, and NNFI was 0.969, good fit.The correlations ranged from p < 0.05 to p < 0.01, showing a connection between the different dimensions. Conclusions:The FCQ-S is valid and adaptable in the Mexican population.