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The Turkish Palatable Eating Motives Scale (T-PEMS): utility in predicting binge-eating eating and obesity risk in university students

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  1. Department of Psychology, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ayşe And & Doruk Uysal Irak

  2. Department of Psychology, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, 35294-1170, USA

    Maria D. Sylvester, Bulent Turan, Mary Katherine Ray & Mary M. Boggiano

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Correspondence to Mary M. Boggiano.

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Funding

This study was supported in part by NIH training Grants (P30 DK056336, P30 DK079626, and T32 HL105349-07).

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Ayşe And declares no conflict of interest. Maria Sylvester declares no conflict of interest. Bulent Turan declares no conflict of interest. Doruk Uysal Irak declares no conflict of interest. Mary Katherine Ray declares no conflict of interest. Mary Boggiano declares no conflict of interest.

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All procedures performed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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Ayşe And and Maria D. Sylvester equally-contributing first authors.

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And, A., Sylvester, M.D., Turan, B. et al. The Turkish Palatable Eating Motives Scale (T-PEMS): utility in predicting binge-eating eating and obesity risk in university students. Eat Weight Disord 23, 527–531 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-017-0383-z

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