Disordered Eating Assessment Core

饮食失调行为核心的总体目标是为参与的MNOC提供帮助 研究人员在评估进食障碍和其他精神病理学方面的进展 对这种饮食紊乱的干预。这些服务既适用于肥胖研究，也适用于 研究包括临床可诊断的进食障碍在内的“经典”进食障碍形式。服务 通过此核心提供的信息按以下部分组织： 1.临床评估：该中心提供有关饮食紊乱的评估和 其他行为；受过培训的评估员的培训和持续质量改进/质量保证；以及 进行结构化评估。 2.治疗发展：核心向调查人员提供关于发展治疗的咨询 以手工为基础的肥胖症和饮食失调治疗，并积极参与这类工作 发展努力。此外，核心还提供某些结构化的治疗干预措施(如 如认知行为疗法)，用于进行中的项目。 3.接触临床人群：核心中心提供接触潜在受试者的途径，包括 饮食障碍诊断；其他精神病理学受试者；未受影响的对照组； 肥胖症样本和档案数据集。 4.以技术为基础的数据积累方法：核心提供访问几个新兴的 高精度、经济高效地积累研究数据的技术，例如 生态瞬时评估，数据扫描/在线数据录入。 5.成本效益分析：核心提供成本收取方面的咨询 临床试验中的有效性数据。此核心提供的服务是高度劳动密集型的，需要 受过高级培训，外加昂贵的行为评估专业经验的个人， 治疗或者两者兼而有之。对于调查人员来说，这将是不切实际的、昂贵的，而且往往不可能重现 这种能力在他们自己的团队中。

The overall goals of the Disordered Eating Behavior Core are to provide assistance to participating MNOC investigators in the assessment of disordered eating and other psychopathology, and the development of interventions for such disordered eating. These services are applicable both to the study of obesity and to the study of "classic" forms of disordered eating including clinically diagnosable eating disorders. Services provided through this Core are organized in the following sections: 1. Clinical Assessment: The Core provides consultation regarding assessment of disordered eating and other behaviors; training and ongoing quality improvement/quality assurance for trained assessors; and the conduct of structured assessments. 2. Treatment Development: The Core provides consultation to investigators regarding the development of manual-based treatments for obesity and disordered eating, and is actively engaged in such development efforts. In addition, the Core provides certain structured therapeutic interventions (such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy) for ongoing projects. 3. Access to Clinical Populations: The Core provides access to populations of potential subjects with eating disorders diagnoses; subjects with other psychopathology; non-affected comparison groups; obese samples; and archival data sets. 4. Technology-Based Methods of Data Accumulation: The Core provides access to several emerging technologies for the highly accurate on cost-effective accumulation of research data, such as ecological momentary assessment, and data scanning/online data entry. 5. Cost Effectiveness Analysis: The Core provides consultation regarding the collection of cost effectiveness data in clinical trials. Services provided by this Core are highly labor-intensive, requiring individuals with advanced training plus expensive, specialized experience in behavioral assessments, treatments or both. It would be impractical, expensive and often impossible for investigators to recreate this capacity in their own group.