Italian Language Validation of The Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) - Child Version

Italian Language Validation of The Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) - Child Version

Although eating disorders often occur during or after puberty, it is likely that critical antecedent conditions can be established before adolescence. The Eating Disorder Examination has been adapted for children and is described by Bryant - Waugh, Cooper, Taylor and Lask (1996). The EDE is considered the gold standard of measures of eating disorder psychopathology (Wilson, 1993), and this adaptation, which allows its use with a younger age group, is a potentially important addition to the assessment of eating disorders in children. The latest version of EDE, the l7th edition, has now surpassed its predecessors.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Child vers ion EDE (chEDE) translated into Italian, in a sample of patients with eating disorder

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects meet a diagnosis of nutrition and eating disorder, specifically anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-5
• or (for control group) Exclusion of a current or past eating disorder by performing pre-testing (KL subscales - SADS) and BMI 17.5
• Signed informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders;
• Substance misuse in place
• Medical complications that have the potential to hinder interpretation of results ( e.g., a medical illness that induces weight loss)
• Presence of physical treatments (including medications) that have the potential to hinder interpretation of results (e.g., chemotherapy for cancer)
• or (for control group) Presence of a current or past eating disorder and/or Ongoing eating disorder therapy