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Clinical: specific disorders

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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