Clinical Impairment Assessment.
CIA
- What it measures
- Severity of psychosocial impairment secondary to eating-disorder features over the past 28 days; personal, social and cognitive impairment domains + a global impairment score
- Length and format
- 16 items. 4-point (0 not at all - 3 a lot); summed global score 0-48; higher = greater impairment; cut-off ~16 for clinically significant impairment (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Many languages incl. ES, DE, IT, PT, SV, ZH, FA
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Bohn, K., Doll, H. A., Cooper, Z., O'Connor, M., Palmer, R. L., & Fairburn, C. G. (2008). The measurement of impairment due to eating disorder psychopathology. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 46(10), 1105-1110.
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