Evaluation of body experience questionnaires in eating disorders in female patients (AN/BN) and nonclinical participants

Probst, Michel; Pieters, Guido; Vanderlinden, Johan

doi:10.1002/eat.20531

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“…The scale is originally developed for female patients suffering from eating disorders but can be used for other clinical and non-clinical females and men [7]. The Body Attitude Test consists of 20 items to be scored on a six-point scale.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The critical score that determines the bound vary between patients and non-patients was established at 36 using Shrout and Fleiss' model [11]. The BAT has good convergent validity with existing body experience related questionnaires, general psychopathological phenomena and complaints and personality traits [12,13]. Research shows that the BAT differentiates between patients with eating disorders and community samples (female students, women with and without fertility problems) [4,12].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The BAT has good convergent validity with existing body experience related questionnaires, general psychopathological phenomena and complaints and personality traits [12,13]. Research shows that the BAT differentiates between patients with eating disorders and community samples (female students, women with and without fertility problems) [4,12]. Results between female and male nonclinical subjects revealed significant difference of the BAT between gender [14].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The BAT also differentiates between different types of eating disorder. A comparison of the different types of eating disorders shows that restricting anorexia nervosa patients obtain the lowest scores and patients with bulimia nervosa the highest [4,7]. A positive linear relationship exists between the BAT total scores and the body mass index (BMI) [15].…”

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“…The questionnaire is currently available in different languages without copyright costs [8][9][10][19][20][21][22]. Normative data of patients with eating disorder (N = 650) and students (N = 200) are available [12,14].…”

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Psychometric properties of the Polish version of the Body Attitude Test

Brytek-Matera¹,

Probst²

2014

Arch Psych Psych

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SummaryBackground. Polish studies have not been focused on measures which assess attitude toward one's own body. The purpose of the present study was to develop the Polish version of the Body Attitude Test (BAT) and examine its reliability. Methods. The study included 48 patients with anorexia nervosa, 39 patients with bulimia nervosa as well as 115 female university students who had never suffered from any eating disorder. The mean age was 18.69 years (SD = 3.52) in women with anorexia nervosa, 22.28 years (SD = 3.79) in women with bulimia nervosa as well as 20.53 years (SD = 1.79) in women without a current eating disorder. The mean duration of illness was 3.31 years (SD = 2.71) in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa and 5.10 years (SD = 2.92) in patients with bulimia nervosa, respectively. Results. The BAT demonstrates satisfactory levels of internal reliability (α = 0.892). The BAT was strongly related with the Eating Disorder Inventory subscales: drive for thinness (r = 0.687, p < 0.001), ineffectiveness (r = 0.643, p < 0.001) and body dissatisfaction (r = 0.634, p < 0.001) and the Self-Esteem Inventory subscale: familial self-esteem (r = -0.601, p < 0.001). Discussion. The results support the criterion validity of the BAT which is able to differentiate clinical from non-clinical subjects. Conclusions. The Polish version of the BAT could be used as an appropriate measure assessing subjective attitude towards the body in women with and without eating disorders in Poland.

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