Item analysis of the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) by the Rasch model: a secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data obtained among community-dwelling elders

Hansen, Tina; Kjaersgaard, Annette

doi:10.1186/s12955-020-01384-2

Table 2 Individual item location and fit statistics for J-EAT-10

From: Item analysis of the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) by the Rasch model: a secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data obtained among community-dwelling elders

Item-abbreviated	Loc	SE	FR	χ² (df)	P	F (df)	P
Full sample
1. Lose weight	−0.67	0.05	5.9	186.01 (5)	< 0.001	20.52 (5.655)	< 0.001
2. Go out meals	1.00	0.07	0.9	5.93 (5)	0.313	0.92 (5655)	0.463
3. Liquids effort	0.04	0.06	−3.0	19.33 (5)	0.002	4.64 (5655)	< 0.001
4. Solids effort	−0.29	0.06	−3.5	37.34 (5)	< 0.001	8.96 (5655)	< 0.001
5. Pills effort	−0.51	0.05	−0.1	9.35 (5)	0.096	1.45 (5655)	0.204
6. Painful	0.10	0.06	−5.7	62.73 (5)	< 0.001	25.20 (5655)	< 0.001
7. Pleasure eat	−0.36	0.06	1.6	28.77 (5)	< 0.001	4.51 (5655)	< 0.001
8. Stick throat	−0.11	0.06	−1.5	32.71 (5)	< 0.001	7.39 (5655)	< 0.001
9. Cough	0.52	0.06	5.1	31.30 (5)	< 0.001	5.33 (5655)	< 0.001
10. Stressful	0.29	0.07	−6.3	72.01 (5)	< 0.001	33.95 (5655)	< 0.001
Independent respondents
1. Lose weight	−0.62	0.07	1.7	41.12 (3)	< 0.001	10.88 (3274)	< 0.001
2. Go out meals	0.35	0.13	0.8	1.77 (3)	0.622	0.54 (3274)	0.656
3. Liquids effort	0.42	0.12	−2.3	12.37 (3)	0.006	5.22 (3274)	0.002
4. Solids effort	0.02	0.09	−2.0	15.31 (3)	0.002	5.69 (3274)	0.001
5. Pills effort	−0.47	0.08	0.4	4.76 (3)	0.190	1.19 (3274)	0.313
6. Painful	0.06	0.10	−3.6	30.93 (3)	< 0.001	21.86 (3274)	< 0.001
7. Pleasure eat	−0.28	0.09	0.0	11.88 (3)	0.008	2.91 (3274)	0.035
8. Stick throat	0.27	0.10	−1.0	12.80 (3)	0.005	4.08 (3274)	0.007
9. Cough	−0.24	0.09	1.9	16.06 (3)	0.001	5.29 (3274)	0.001
10. Stressful	0.50	0.12	−4.1	28.93 (3)	< 0.001	20.83 (3274)	< 0.001
Dependent respondents
1. Lose weight	−0.61	0.06	5.9	122.30 (3)	< 0.000	19.71 (3379)	< 0.001
2. Go out meals	0.96	0.08	0.9	1.90 (3)	0.594	0.44 (3379)	0.723
3. Liquids effort	0.04	0.07	−1.8	8.49 (3)	0.037	3.14 (3379)	0.025
4. Solids effort	−0.36	0.07	−2.7	25.42 (3)	< 0.000	11.50 (3379)	< 0.001
5. Pills effort	−0.45	0.07	−0.8	8.56 (3)	0.036	3.05 (3379)	0.029
6. Painful	0.14	0.08	−4.2	37.25 (3)	< 0.000	25.20 (3379)	< 0.001
7. Pleasure eat	−0.35	0.07	1.9	16.02 (3)	0.001	3.43 (3379)	0.017
8. Stick throat	−0.14	0.07	−1.0	13.25 (3)	0.004	5.32 (3379)	0.001
9. Cough	0.53	0.07	4.6	19.72 (3)	< 0.000	5.00 (3379)	0.002
10. Stressful	0.24	0.08	−4.7	40.32 (3)	< 0.000	30.76 (3379)	< 0.001
*Optimal value*			<±2.5		≥0.05^a		≥0.05^a

Bold indicates misfit or violation of the Rasch model
J-EAT-10 Japanese version of the Eating Assessment Tool, Loc. location, SE standard error, FR fit residual, χ² Chi-square, df degrees of freedom, F F-statistic
^aBonferroni adjusted p = 0.005 for ten items

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