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Further development of the 12-item EDE-QS: identifying a cut-off for screening purposes

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Prnjak, Katarina, Mitchison, Deborah, Griffiths, Scott, Mond, Jonathan, Gideon, Nicole, Serpell, Lucy, Hay, Phillipa·2020·BMC Psychiatry
DOI 10.1186/s12888-020-02565-5PMC PMC7118929

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BACKGROUND: The Eating Disorder Examination - Questionnaire Short (EDE-QS) was developed as a 12-item version of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) with a 4-point response scale that assesses eating disorder (ED) symptoms over the preceding 7 days. It has demonstrated good psychometric properties at initial testing. The purpose of this brief report is to determine a threshold score that could be used in screening for probable ED cases in community settings. METHODS: Data collected from Gideon et al. (2016) were re-analyzed. In their study, 559 participants (80.86% female; 9.66% self-reported ED diagnosis) completed the EDE-Q, EDE-QS, SCOFF, and Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA). Discriminatory power was compared between ED instruments using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses. RESULTS: A score of 15 emerged as the threshold that ensured the best trade-off between sensitivity (.83) and specificity (.85), and good positive predictive value (.37) for the EDE-QS, with discriminatory power comparable to other ED instruments. CONCLUSION: The EDE-QS appears to be an instrument with good discriminatory power that could be used for ED screening purposes.

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Fig. 1 Relationship between sensitivity and specificity at different cut-off scores. Black-colored markers indicate cut-off scores of 15, 2.8, and 2 for EDE-QS, EDE-Q, and SCOFF, respectively
Fig. 1 Relationship between sensitivity and specificity at different cut-off scores. Black-colored markers indicate cut-off scores of 15, 2.8, and 2 for EDE-QS, EDE-Q, and SCOFF, respectivelyCC BY · PubMed Central

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  1. Fairburn CG, Cooper Z, O'Connor M. The eating disorder examination. Int J Eat Disord. 1993;6:1–8.

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Authors
Prnjak, K., Mitchison, D., Griffiths, S., Mond, J., Gideon, N., Serpell, L., & Hay, P.
Affiliations
  • Western Sydney University (AU)
  • The University of Melbourne (AU)
  • University of Tasmania (AU)
  • Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • North East London NHS Foundation Trust (GB)
  • Camden and Campbelltown Hospitals (AU)
Corresponding author
Prnjak, Katarina
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Venue
BMC Psychiatry
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2020-04-03
Volume
20
Issue
1
Pages
146-146
ISSN
1471-244X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1186/s12888-020-02565-5
PMC
PMC7118929
OpenAlex
W3014826794
Cited by
134
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 19 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 5
FWCI
5.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • BMC Psychiatry (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UTAS Research Repository (acceptedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Western Sydney University
  • Medical Research Council
  • National Health and Medical Research Council (1121538)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, eating disorders, screening, cut-off values, threshold scores, discriminant validity, sensitivity and specificity, SCOFF questionnaire, community settings
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Female, Humans, Male, Mass Screening, Predictive Value of Tests, Psychometrics, Surveys and Questionnaires, Sensitivity and Specificity, Reproducibility of Results

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