Eating Disorder Examination (investigator-based interview).
EDE
- What it measures
- Eating-disorder psychopathology over the past 28 days on 4 subscales - Restraint, Eating Concern, Shape Concern, Weight Concern - plus diagnostic items for objective and subjective binge episodes and compensatory behaviours
- Length and format
- Approx 28-30 rated items within an investigator-based semi-structured interview (edition 17.0D). interviewer-assigned 0-6 severity and frequency ratings based on probing, not on the respondent's literal answer (clinician-rated/interview)
- Language versions
- 20+ langs (DE, ES, IT, NL, SV, PT, TR, JA, ZH, NO, DA, PL among them; approx)
- 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
- Fairburn, C.G., Cooper, Z., & O'Connor, M. (2014). Eating Disorder Examination (Edition 17.0D). Oxford: CREDO. https://credo-oxford.com/pdfs/EDE_17.0D.pdf
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