Psychometric Rating in the Assessment of Progress in Anorexia Nervosa

Gomez, Joan; Dally, Peter

doi:10.1192/bjp.136.3.290

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“…Results of much of the existing research in this area are subject to bias arising from such factors as small sample sizes, non-representative samples, and the use of assessment instruments which have not been subjected to adequate testing, and which may be culturally biased. Perhaps it is partly as a function of such factors that studies on the stress-disordered eating relationship have produced contradictory findings (e.g., Crowther & Chernyk, 1986;Gomez & Dally, 1980;Haslam, Stevens & Haslam, 1989;Johnson, Stuckey, Lewis & Schwartz, 1982;Leon, Fulkerson, Perry & Early-Zald, 1995;Mynors-Wallis, Treasure & Chee, 1992;Soukup, Beiler & Terrell, 1990;Weiss & Ebert, 1983). In addition, most previous research in this area has used samples of American college students.…”

Section: Abstract Disordered Eating Psychological Stress Life Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Stress and Disordered Eating: An Exploratory Study with Young Australian Women

1999

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An exploratory study was conducted to examine whether the relationships between psychological stress and disordered eating, reported in many studies using American samples, would be found in a sample of young Australian women. A total of 212 women aged 18-22 years completed a questionnaire assessing a number of women's health issues, including life events stress, perceived stress levels, psychological distress, disordered eating behaviours, and concerns about weight and eating. While results showed few strong relationships between stress and eating variables for the sample overall, those women with high psychological stress levels appeared to be more likely to engage in disordered eating behaviours than women with low levels of stress. Results suggest that further investigation, targeting subgroups of women scoring highly on measures of psychological stress or disordered eating, may help clarify our understanding of the relationships between these factors in young Australian women.

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Section: Abstract Disordered Eating Psychological Stress Life Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Stress and Disordered Eating: An Exploratory Study with Young Australian Women

1999

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“…Patients with eating disorders are prone to deny the severity of their illness. Such denial may lead to distortion of responses to self-report questionnaires (e.g., Gomez & Dally, 1980). However, deliberate denial of concerns or symptoms is unlikely to affect the results produced by the Stroop technique.…”

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An adaptation of the stroop test for measuring shape and food concerns in eating disorders: A quantitative measure of psychopathology?

Ben-Tovim

Walker

Fok

et al. 1989

Intl J Eating Disorders

121

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“…Attempts to understand the pathogenesis and course of these disorders have increasingly included investigation of stressful life events. Three studies all indicate that such events may increase the risk that someone will engage in binge eating (3)(4)(5), but some authors emphasize that the influence of them may depend on vulnerability in the affected person (6,7). An increased level of stress at the onset of an eating disorder only in those with concurrent personality disorder was actually reported by Johnson et al (8).…”

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A three-year prospective study of life events and course for adults with anorexia nervosa/bulimia nervosa.

Sohlberg

Norring

1992

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Attempts to understand the pathogenesis and course of eating disorders have increasingly included investigation of stressful life events. We report a prospective study in which major life events were assessed 1, 2, and 3 years after the patient's initial presentation to a university hospital psychiatric department. Using a combined questionnaire and interview procedure based on items from the Psychiatric Epidemiologic Research Interview, we studied 25 adults with DSM-III-R anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Evidence for an influence of life events on improvement was obtained the 1st year. Events explained a substantial 30% of the variability in follow-up status, with analyses taking potential confounds into consideration unable to explain the finding. Also, significant correlations between events and self-rated variables (Eating Disorder Inventory and Beck Depression Inventory) were obtained at one of the follow-ups, but in all, the data did not consistently imply that life events affect the patients' course.

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Psychometric Rating in the Assessment of Progress in Anorexia Nervosa

Cited by 25 publications

References 13 publications

Psychological Stress and Disordered Eating: An Exploratory Study with Young Australian Women

Psychological Stress and Disordered Eating: An Exploratory Study with Young Australian Women

An adaptation of the stroop test for measuring shape and food concerns in eating disorders: A quantitative measure of psychopathology?

A three-year prospective study of life events and course for adults with anorexia nervosa/bulimia nervosa.

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