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The validity of the eating disorder examination and its subscales.

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The EDE is a semistructured interview which has been developed as a measure of the specific psychopathology of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. To establish its discriminant validity it was administered to 100 patients with anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa and to 42 controls. The two groups differed significantly on all items. Five subscales were derived on rational grounds and evaluated on the two populations. The alpha coefficients for each subscale indicated a satisfactory degree o...

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10.1192/bjp.154.6.807

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University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
Role:
Author
Journal:
British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
Volume:
154
Issue:
JUN.
Pages:
807-812
Publication date:
1989-06-01
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EISSN:
1472-1465
ISSN:
0007-1250
Language:
English
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pubs:205459
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uuid:0467757f-e508-49bc-af90-4be67aec37b6
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pubs:205459
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205459
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2012-12-19

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