The classification of bulimic eating disorders: a community-based cluster analysis study.

Journal article

There is controversy over how best to classify eating disorders in which there is recurrent binge eating. Many patients with recurrent binge eating do not meet diagnostic criteria for other of the two established eating disorders, anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. The present study was designed to derive an empirically based, and clinically meaningful, diagnostic scheme by identifying subgroups from among those with recurrent binge eating, testing the validity of these subgroups and compar...

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Authors: Hay, P; Fairburn, C; Doll, H

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Psychological medicine
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 801-812
• Publication date: 1996-07-01
• EISSN: 1469-8978
• ISSN: 0033-2917
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Cluster Analysis; Adult; Humans; Bulimia; Adolescent; Reproducibility of Results