The instrument consists of 40 statements related to eating.
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Responses
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"Forward"
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"Reverse"
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always
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0
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3
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very often
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0
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2
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often
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0
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1
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sometimes
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1
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0
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rarely
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2
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0
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never
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3
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0
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Scoring:
(1) forward: 1, 19, 23, 39
(2) reverse: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 40
Interpretation:
• minimal score: 0
• maximal score: 120 for women, 117 for men
• A score > 30 is found in patients with anorexia nervosa. About 7% of non-anorexic, "normal" persons will have a score >30; all of these had a score <= 40).
• Recovered anorexic patients score in the normal range indicating that the test may be sensitive to clinical remission.
Performance characteristics:
• The alpha reliability coefficient 0.79 for anorexia nervosa patients and 0.94 for the pooled sample of anorexia and normal control patients.
• The validity coefficient was 0.87.
