Diagnosing eating disorders in adolescents: A comparison of the eating disorder examination and the development and well-being assessment
Diagnosing eating disorders in adolescents: A comparison of the eating disorder examination and the development and well-being assessment
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DOI:
10.1002/eat.20528
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发表时间:
2008-09-01
影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Micali, Nadia
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作者:
House, Jennifer;Eisler, Ivan;Micali, Nadia
Objective: To compare file diagnostic properties of the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) and the online version of the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA). moderate (K = 0.59), agreement between the DAWBA and EDE diagnoses was fair (K,= 0.21), and agreement between the clinical and EDE diagnoses was poor (K = 0.10). The EDE did not identify an eating disorder in 20 participants (35% of the sample) who were clinically assessed as cases.Method: Fifty-Seven adolescents (mean age 15.7 years) who attended consecutive assessments at a specialist eating disorders clinic completed the DAWBA, the EDE, and a standard clinical assessment with a multidisciplinary learn. Cohen's Kappas were used to make pairwise comparisons between the diagnoses generated by the three assessments.Results: Participants had anorexia nervosa (n = 30), eating disorders NOS (n = 21) or no eating disorder (n = 6) according to the clinical diagnosis. Agreement between the clinical an(] DAWBA diagnoses wasConclusion: Computerized measures using Multiple informants may he more suitable for assessing clinical samples of adolescents with anorexia nervosa or eating disorders NOS than individual interviews with young people. 0 2008 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.