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Clinical: specific disorders

Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire - Short.

EDE-QS

What it measures
Brief 7-day eating-disorder symptom severity; unidimensional short form of the EDE-Q for repeated/session-by-session monitoring
Length and format
12 items. 4-point (0-3); summed 0-36; screening cut-off ~15 (Prnjak et al. 2020) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Multiple incl. ES, DE, IT, SV, FR (inherits the EDE-Q translation base)
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
Gideon, N., Hawkes, N., Mond, J., et al. (2016). Development and psychometric validation of the EDE-QS, a 12-item short form of the EDE-Q. PLoS ONE, 11(5), e0152744.

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