The Nepean Belief Scale (NBS) as a tool to investigate the intensity of beliefs in anorexia nervosa: psychometric properties of the Italian version
Arianna Sciarrillo,
Francesco Bevione,
Marta Lepora
et al.
Abstract:Background
People with anorexia nervosa (AN) show a peculiar impairment of insight regarding their condition, often manifesting a denial of extreme emaciation and sometimes hiding or underreporting socially undesirable abnormal eating patterns. Sometimes the intensity of the beliefs held by patients with AN reach a delusional intensity.
Objectives
In this study, the Italian version of the Nepean Belief Scale was applied to a sample of patients diag… Show more
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