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Objective: To develop an effective measure of the symptoms of eating disorders for use in community surveys. Method: A branched eating disorders instrument for administration by notebook computer was evaluated as a screen in 487 teenage schoolgiris. High scorers and a stratified sample of low scorers were evaluated in a second-stage interview with the Eating Disorders Examination (EDE). Results: The Branched Eating Disorders Test (BET) proved to have exceptional validity coefficients (sensitivity 1 OO%, specificity 99%, positive predictive value 70%). Discussion: This pilot validation suggests that the BET largely overcomes the problems of earlier instruments of limited screening utility when applied to community samples. 0 7 996 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Over the last two decades the development of clinically validated instruments for the evaluation of symptoms of eating disorders has allowed an expansion of epidemiological research into community settings (Garner & Garfinkel, 1979; Garner, Olmstead, & Polivy, 1983; Whitaker et al., 1989). Although the application of clinically validated instruments in community studies of eating disorders has improved understanding of the disord

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Author

Rob Selzer; Cheryl Hamill; Glenn Bowes; George Patton

Publisher

Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0276-3478)

Published

1996

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)