Feeding behavior and nutritional aspects of children using an adapted version of Children’s Eating Behavior Questionnaire

This research aims to evaluate the feeding behavior in pre-school children. In this first part, it was performed the adaptation of the Portuguese version (Portugal) of the Children’s Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ) for Portuguese Brazilian language, which was applied in mothers of 15 children aged three to six years. It was added an option “I did not understand” in each question to verify the comprehensiveness of at least 85% of the questionnaire. All questions were answered properly and the respective scores were in line with the original version. This version of the CEBQ can be considered adequate for Brazilian parents.