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Considered a step-down care approach, intensive outpatient programs (IOPs) provide a cost-effective, practical, and less restrictive alternative to inpatient hospitalization for those needing more frequent follow-up care but do not meet criteria for hospitalization. Additionally, patients who are transitioning from inpatient care, but require additional supportive services prior to fully reintegrating back into the community also greatly benefit from IOPs. IOPs offer ongoing group and individual psychotherapy and allow for frequent medication checks to monitor changes in the symptom report. Most research on IOPs has focused on the efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy with mood and personality disorders. However, limited research is available on the efficacy of IOPs with treatment-resistant depression despite the growing need to better understand how to adequately treat this disorder. [ Psychiatr Ann . 2016;46(4):236–239.]

This is the first study to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T), and Food Craving Questionnaire—State (FCQ-S) measures using a clinically heterogeneous sample of eating disorder patients (N = 177) recruited from seven different outpatient eating disorder treatment centers in Spain. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) corroborated the factor structures of the FCQ-T and FCQ-S. The measures' scores and their factor-derived scale—scores yielded internal consistency reliability indexes that ranged from adequate to excellent. The measures were predictive of eating disorder symptoms. As expected, the FCQ-T was more strongly associated with eating disorder psychopathology than the FCQ-S. The results replicated the psychometric properties of the FCQ-T and FCQ-S in eating disorder populations and could become useful tools in clinical and research settings.