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Clinical: specific disorders

Nine Item ARFID Screen.

NIAS

What it measures
Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) presentations; three subscales - Picky Eating, Appetite (low interest in food), Fear (of aversive consequences)
Length and format
9 items. 6-point Likert (strongly disagree-strongly agree, 0-5); three 3-item subscales (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Growing set incl. ES, DE, PT, ZH, IT, JA, FR
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
Zickgraf, H. F., & Ellis, J. M. (2018). Initial validation of the Nine Item Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake disorder screen (NIAS). Appetite, 123, 32-42.

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