Dr. Rachel Radin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She studies the links between eating behaviors, stress, and metabolic health in adults. Dr. Radin very interested in developing, optimizing, and disseminating interventions to reduce dysregulated eating behavior, including stress-related eating, and improve metabolic health. She is currently funded by a K23 Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (K23 AT011048). Dr. Radin is also a Licensed Clinical Psychologist in the state of California (License # 30403). As a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, she received an F32 National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) to investigate the impact of a mindfulness intervention (SHINE trial) on stress-related eating and endocrine and autonomic profiles of stress reactivity. She completed a PhD in Medical and Clinical Psychology from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in 2017 after completing a Pre-doctoral Internship in Pediatric Psychology at Mount Washington Pediatric Hospital. She earned an MA in psychology in education from Columbia University and a BA in psychology from the George Washington University.

Website Links for Eating Measures:

• Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ; van Strien, Frijters, Bergers, & Defares, 1986): https://eprovide.mapi-trust.org/instruments/dutch-eating-behavior-questionnaire#member_access_content
  • Assesses eating in response to emotional arousal states, including eating in response to diffuse and clearly labeled emotions.
• Binge Eating Scale (BES; Gormally, Black, Daston, & Rardin, 1982): https://psychology-tools.com/test/binge-eating-scale
  • A measure of behavioral manifestations and feelings surrounding a binge episode.
  • This 16-item scale is commonly used to assess severity of binge eating and discriminates between overweight/obese individuals with severe, moderate, or no binge eating problems.
  • It assesses the severity of behavioral and cognitive characteristics associated with binge eating such as feeling distress about overeating, feeling out of control in response to food cues, feeling a lack of satiation, and being preoccupied with food.
• Questionnaire on Eating and Weight Patterns –5 (QEWP-5; Yanovski, Marcus, Wadden, & Walsh, 2015): https://www.phenxtoolkit.org/toolkit_content/PDF/PX651201.pdf 
  • A 24-item questionnaire that assesses the frequency of reported binge eating. The QEWP-5 been adapted to capture loss of control (LOC) eating as well as binge episodes.
  • This questionnaire is a screening tool designed to identify adults with possible DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder
• Palatable Eating Motives Scale (PEMS; Burgess, Turan, Lokken, Morse, & Boggiano, 2014): https://www.gem-beta.org/Public/DownloadMeasure.aspx?mdocID=313
  • The PEMS Coping subscale probes various motives for ‘‘eating tasty food and drinks.’’
  • The Coping motives subscale measures intentionally using palatable food to cope with negative feelings (e.g., to forget about or help with worry, depression, nervousness, a bad mood, or problems).
• Trait Food Craving Questionnaire, Reduced (FCQ-T-r; Meule, Hermann, & Kubler, 2014): https://www.gem-beta.org/public/DownloadMeasure.aspx?mdocid=315
  • ​The Trait Food Craving Questionnaire, reduced, is a 15-item measure of behavioral, cognitive, and physical aspects of cravings for different types of food.
  • High scores predict how much people crave and eat densely caloric snacks in daily life, and are associated with self-reported failures in dieting
• Reward-based Eating Drive Scale (RED-9; Epel, Tomiyama, Mason et al., 2014)
  • Click here to download the original 9-item RED
  • A 9-item self-report measure of reward-driven eating
  • Captures a lack of satiety, preoccupation with eating, and loss of control over eating
  • Click here to download the 13-item RED (Mason, Vainik, Acree, et al., 2017).