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Further development of the 12-item EDE-QS: identifying a cut-off for screening purposes
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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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- 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
- Venue
- BMC Psychiatry
- Published
- 2020-04-03
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 146-146
- ISSN
- 1471-244X (ISSN-L)
- 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
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- 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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