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Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ)Please read the following statements and tick the boxes

most appropriate to your childs eating behaviour.

Never Rarely Some-times

ften !lways

"y child loves food #$

"y child eats more when worried # #

"y child has a big appetite SR%

"y child finishes his&her meal 'uickly S#%

"y child is interested in food #$

"y child is always asking for a drink ((

"y child refuses new foods at first $$

"y child eats slowly S#

"y child eats less when angry #)#

"y child en*oys tasting new foods $$%

"y child eats less when s&he is tired #)#

"y child is always asking for food $R

"y child eats more when annoyed # #

+f allowed to, my child would eat too much $R

"y child eats more when anxious # #

"y child en*oys a wide variety of foods $$%

"y child leaves food on his&her plate at theend of a meal

SR

"y child takes more than minutes tofinish a meal

S#

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Never Rarely Some-times

ften !lways

/iven the choice, my child would eat mostof the time

$R

"y child looks forward to mealtimes #$

"y child gets full before his&her meal isfinished

SR

"y child en*oys eating #$

"y child eats more when she is happy #)#

"y child is difficult to please with meals $$

"y child eats less when upset #)#

"y child gets full up easily SR

"y child eats more when s&he has nothing

else to do

# #

#ven if my child is full up s&he finds room toeat his&her favourite food

$R

+f given the chance, my child would drinkcontinuously throughout the day

((

"y child cannot eat a meal if s&he has hada snack *ust before

SR

+f given the chance, my child would alwaysbe having a drink ((

"y child is interested in tasting food s&hehasnt tasted before

$$%

"y child decides that s&he doesnt like afood, even without tasting it

$$

+f given the chance, my child would alwayshave food in his&her mouth

$R

"y child eats more and more slowly duringthe course of a meal

S#

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SCORING OF T E CEBQ

(Never!"# Rarel$!%# So&eti&es!'# O ten! # *l+a$s!,)

$ood responsiveness 0 item mean $R

#motional over-eating 0 item mean # #

#n*oyment of food 0 item mean #$

(esire to drink 0 item mean ((

Satiety responsiveness 0 item mean SR

Slowness in eating 0 item mean S#

#motional under-eating 0 item mean #)#

$ood fussiness 0 item mean $$

%Reversed items

1ardle, 2, /uthrie 3!, Sanderson, S and Rapoport, 4. (evelopment of the3hildrens #ating 5ehaviour 6uestionnaire. Journal of Child Psychology and

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