New Horizons in Measurement: a Review of Novel and Innovative Approaches to Eating-Disorder Assessment.
Curr Psychiatry Rep
; 19(10): 76, 2017 Sep 11.
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| ID: mdl-28891029
ABSTRACT
PURPOSE OF REVIEW Eating disorders are serious mental-health concerns that will affect over 30 million individuals in the USA at some point in their lives. Eating disorders occur across the lifespan, in a variety of ethnicities and races, in both men and women, and across the socioeconomic spectrum. Given the prevalence and severity of eating disorders, it is important that clinicians and researchers have access to appropriate assessment tools to aid in the early identification and treatment referral, differential diagnosis, treatment planning, and progress monitoring, and to ensure valid research findings. In this review, we describe novel and innovative assessment tools that were developed within the past 5 years for utilization in research and/or clinical practice with individuals with eating disorders. RECENT FINDINGS:
We identified six multidimensional assessments for eating disorders, all of which can be administered online (with some also offering paper-and-pencil versions). Strengths of the measures included good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and convergent validity. However, in part, due to problematic scale construction methods, certain scales had poor discriminant validity and most were developed and validated in mostly female samples. There are promising new eating disorder measures from which to choose; however, many measures continue to be limited by poor discriminant validity and need additional validation prior to incorporation into routine research and clinical practice.Palavras-chave
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Transtornos da Alimentação e da Ingestão de Alimentos
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Curr Psychiatry Rep
Assunto da revista:
PSIQUIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos