Form: Disordered Eating Attitude Scale, DEAS

Disordered Eating Attitude Scale, DEAS
1. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of sugar?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
2. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of oil?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
3. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of French fries?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
4. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of white meat?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
5. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of vegetables?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
6. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of fruits?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
7. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of breads?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
8. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of rice?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
9. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of pasta?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
10. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of beans?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
11. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of red meat?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
12. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of whole milk?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
13. How healthy and necessary do you consider consumption of cheese?
Eating this food often is healthy and necessary
Eating this food occasionally is healthy and necessary
Not eating this food is healthy and necessary
14. Do you feel pleasure when you eat?
Yes
No
15. Does eating ever feel unnatural to you?
Yes
No
16. Have you ever spent one or more days without eating or having only liquids because you believed you could lose weight?
Yes
No
17. Do you count the calories of everything you eat?
Yes
No
18. Do you enjoy the feeling of an empty stomach?
Yes
No
19. Do you «skip» meals to avoid putting on weight?
Yes
No
20. Does eating make you feel «dirty»?
Yes
No
21. Do you have good memories related to food?
Yes
No
22. Would you like to not need to eat?
Yes
No
23. Do you believe that it is normal to eat sometimes just because you are sad, upset or bored?
Yes
No
24. When you eat more than usual, what is your behavior afterwards?
Restart eating as usual
Assume you have lost control and keep eating even more
Decide to go on a diet to compensate
Use some kind of compensation, such as physical activity, vomiting, laxatives, or diuretics
25. I feel guilty when I eat something that I thought I should not eat for some reason.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
26. I quit eating a kind of food if I find out it has more calories than I thought.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
27. I worry all the time about what I am going to eat, how much to eat, how to prepare food and whether I should eat or not.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
28. I worry about how much a certain kind of food or meal will make me gain weight.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
29. I am angry when I feel hungry.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
30. It is hard to choose what to eat, because I always think I should eat less or choose the option with fewer calories.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
31. When I desire a specific kind of food, I know I won't stop eating until I have finished with it.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
32. I would like to have my appetite and eating behavior under total control.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
33. I try eating less in front of others in order to overeat when I am alone.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
34. I am afraid to start eating and not be able to stop.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
35. I dream of a pill that would replace food.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
36. I get nervous and/or lose my self-control at parties and buffets, due to the great amount of foods available.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never
37. My relationship with food messes up my life as a whole.
Always
Usually
Often
Sometimes
Rarely / Never