“…The EDE is a semi-structured, interviewer-based instrument with established reliability and validity (Z. Cooper, Cooper, & Fairburn, 1989;Grilo, Masheb, Lozano-Blanco, & Barry, 2004;Rizvi, Peterson, Crow, & Agras, 2000;Rosen, Vara, Wendt, & Leitenberg, 1990). EDE items assessing weekly frequency of binge eating episodes (i.e., consumption of an unambiguously large amount of food accompanied by loss of control over eating) and binge eating-related distress over the past six months were used as validators in comparisons of women with BED reporting threshold and subthreshold overvaluation.…”