This is the first study to develop scales for pregnancy-related discomforts in Japanese women in order to evaluate psychosomatic states during each trimester of pregnancy. Because the number of scale items had decreased by more than half as compared to previous scales, this new, more feasible scale may be useful in clinical settings.
The purpose of this study is to find out an better screening protocol to identify female adolescents at risk for eating disturbances. We administered a newly developed eating disturbance onset prediction test and the Eating Attitude Test 26 the EAT 26 to 1061 Japanese female high school students at Time 1 T1. EAT 26 was re administered about 10 months later, designated as Time 2 T2. Based on EAT 26 findings, students were classified into four eating behavior groups onset free group, recovered group, persistent group, and onset group. The normal groups at T1 onset free and onset groups were extracted in Step 1, and the onset group was predicted from the extracted normal groups in Step 2. Useful items for Step 2 were investigated through the eating disturbance onset prediction test, and four items were selected. As a result, the correct discrimination rate in the onset group was obtained as 73.3 , and the negative predictive value was obtained as 98.3. These results show that the protocol using the four items is useful in predicting the onset of eating disturbances among female high school students. False negative cases accounted for 1.2 of all students, thus, reduction of the false negative rate by modification of measurement items may be needed.
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