Validity of a four-item questionnaire in French assessing attachment to meat

The 16-item Meat Attachment Questionnaire (MAQ-16) assesses emotional and cognitive attachment to meat across four dimensions: hedonism, affinity, entitlement, and dependence. Recently validated in French, we aimed to develop and validate a shorter, four-item version (MAQ -4) to reduce participant b...

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Published in:Frontiers in medicine 2024-10, Vol.11, p.1383825
Main Authors: Sebo, Paul, Tudrej, Benoit, Bernard, Augustin, Delaunay, Bruno, Dupuy, Alexandra, Malavergne, Claire, Maisonneuve, Hubert
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Language:English
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attachment to meat
french
MAQ
meat attachment questionnaire
primary care
validation
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Summary:The 16-item Meat Attachment Questionnaire (MAQ-16) assesses emotional and cognitive attachment to meat across four dimensions: hedonism, affinity, entitlement, and dependence. Recently validated in French, we aimed to develop and validate a shorter, four-item version (MAQ -4) to reduce participant burden. In this 2023 observational study in the Rhône-Alpes region, 919 primary care patients were invited to complete the French MAQ-16 (MAQ -16). Classical test theory guided the development of the MAQ -4, and Spearman's correlation coefficients assessed its correlation with the MAQ -16 (dimension and overall scores). We also evaluated the diagnostic performance of the MAQ -4 for identifying patients with high meat attachment (MAQ -16 score > 60). A total of 822 patients participated (65.3% women; median age = 52; participation rate = 89.5%). The MAQ -4 showed strong correlations with the MAQ -16 (rho = 0.83 for hedonism, 0.77 for affinity, 0.70 for entitlement, 0.79 for dependence, and 0.86 for the overall score, all -values
ISSN:2296-858X
2296-858X
DOI:10.3389/fmed.2024.1383825