Description: Used for ages 8+ years. The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) is a 28-item measure used to assess the range and severity of eating disorder-related symptoms.
Scoring: Higher mean score = More eating disorder psychopathology
Global mean score of 6 is the maximum possible score
Subscales are scored as means:
Restraint Concern items:
- 1. Restraint over eating
- 2. Avoidance of eating
- 3. Food avoidance
- 4. Dietary Rules
- 5. Empty stomach
Eating Concern items:
- 7. Preoccupation with food, eating or calories
- 9. Fear of losing control over eating
- 19. Eating in secret
- 20. Guilt about eating
- 21. Social eating
Shape Concern items:
- 6. Flat stomach
- 8. Preoccupation with shape or weight
- 10. Fear of weight gain
- 11. Feelings of fatness
- 23. Importance of shape
- 26. Dissatisfaction with shape
- 27. Discomfort seeing body
- 28. Avoidance of exposure
Weight Concern items:
- 8. Preoccupation with shape or weight
- 12. Desire to lose weight
- 22. Importance of weight
- 24. Reaction to prescribed weighing
- 25. Dissatisfaction with weight
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