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The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT, EAT-26), created by David Garner, is a widely used 26-item, standardized self-reported questionnaire of symptoms and concerns characteristic of eating disorders. The EAT is useful in assessing "eating disorder risk" in high school, college and other special risk samples such as athletes.
1, 2, 3 Anticipation of positive reinforcement that may result from eating 4, 5, 6 Anticipation of relief from negative states and feelings as a result of eating 7, 8, 9 Lack of control over eating 10, 11, 12 Craving as a physiological state (i.e., hunger) 13, 14, 15
The Binge Eating Scale is a sixteen item questionnaire used to assess the presence of binge eating behavior indicative of an eating disorder. It was devised by J. Gormally et al. in 1982 specifically for use with obese individuals.
The Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire (abbreviated as TFEQ) is a questionnaire often applied in food intake-behavior related research. It goes back to its publication in 1985 by Albert J. Stunkard and Samuel Messick. [1] The TFEQ contains 51 items (questions) and measures three dimensions of human eating behavior:
Orthorexia nervosa (/ ˌ ɔːr θ ə ˈ r ɛ k s i ə n ər ˈ v oʊ s ə /; ON; also known as orthorexia) is a proposed eating disorder characterized by an excessive preoccupation with eating healthy food. [1] [2] [3] The term was introduced in 1997 by American physician Steven Bratman, who suggested that some people's dietary restrictions ...
To ensure the validity of this test, Probst and colleagues compared the results of the BAT to other tools already in use to evaluate women with eating disorders. These other evaluations include the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ), the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI), and the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT). [3]
Lastly, the questionnaire asks for the patient's current weight, height, sex and age. [3] The EDDS questionnaire is used for researchers to provide some cures for the three types of eating disorder. It is more efficient than having an interview because it is easier to get a result, from a group of participants, with the 22-item questionnaire.
The EDE-Q is a 28 item self-report questionnaire. It retains the format of the EDE including the 4 subscales and global score. It also concerns behaviors over a 28-day time period and retains the scoring system of 0–6, with 0 indicating no days, 1=1–5 days, 2=6–12 days, 3=13–15 days, 4=16–22 days, 5=23–27 days and 6= every day. [3]