Eating Disorders Examination-Questionnaire short form

Authors

Nicole Gideon, Nick Hawkes, Jonathan Mond, Rob Saunders, Kate Tchanturia, Lucy Serpell (2016)

The EDE-QS is a 12-item version of the original EDE-Q. The EDE-QS evaluates disordered eating symptoms over the past 7 days. Note there are alternative shorter versions of EDE-Q, the EDE-Q18 (Carey et al. 2019), EDE-Q8 (Kliem et al. 2016), and EDE-Q7 (Grilo et al. 2013).

What this tool is good for:

This tool is useful for quickly screening for eating disorder symptoms in clinical and research settings.

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Validity and Reliability Papers

Gideon, N., Hawkes, N., Mond, J., Saunders, R., Tchanturia, K., & Serpell, L. (2016). Development and Psychometric Validation of the EDE-QS, a 12 Item Short Form of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q). N. Takei (Ed.), PLOS ONE, 11(5), e0152744. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152744

Prnjak, K., Mitchison, D., Griffiths, S., Mond, J., Gideon, N., Serpell, L., & Hay, P. (2020). Further development of the 12-item EDE-QS: Identifying a cut-off for screening purposes. BMC Psychiatry, 20(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02565-5

Machado, P.P.P., Grilo, C.M., Rodrigues, T.F., Vaz, A.R., Crosby, R.D. (2020) Eating Disorder Examination - Questionnaire short forms: A comparison. Int J Eat Disord. 53(6), 937-944. https://doi.org/10.1002/eat.23275

Type of tool

Screening

Specific gender

Non-specific

Age validated for use with

Adults (18+ years)

Eating disorders

General

Evaluates

Signs and symptoms, Body shape attitudes, Eating attitudes

Delivery Setting

Self-report

Number of Questions

Specific Populations

General population

Approximate administration time:

5-10-minutes

Free access

Yes

Languages

English, Chinese