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. 2019 Apr 3;7:123. doi: 10.3389/fped.2019.00123

Table 2.

Description of questionnaires used in the different selected studies to assess ED symptoms.

References Variables assessed Questionnaires
Cohen et al. (54) Items aimed at investigating:
  1. Food Approach: food responsiveness, enjoyment of food, emotional overeating and desire to drink

  2. Food Avoidance: headings slowness in eating, food fussiness, satiety responsiveness and emotional under eating.

CEBQ (43)
Children Eating Behaviour Questionnaire
Balantekin et al. (55)
Goossens et al. (61)
Items aimed at investigating four major areas of eating disorder psychopathology: restraint, eating, shape, and weight concerns. ChEDE (40)
Child Eating Disorder Examination
Balantekin et al. (55) Adaption of ChEDE for adolescents. YEDEQ (41, 42)
Youth Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire
Halberstadt et al. (56)
De Niet et al. (59)
Sarvestani et al. (62)
Items aimed at investigating: external eating, emotional eating and restrained eating. DEBQ (39)
Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire
Adam et al. (57) Items aimed at evaluating: disinhibition, cognitive control, flexible control and rigid control. TFEQ(44)
Three-Factor Eating Questionnaire
Raimunda Dâmaso et al. (58) Items aimed at evaluating Bulimia symptoms. BITE (46)
Bulimic Investigatory Test, Edinburgh
Raimunda Damask et al. (58) Items aimed at describing both behavioral manifestations and feeling/cognitions surrounding a binge episode and cognitive phenomena thought to be related to binge eating. BES (45)
Binge Eating Scale
Bishop-Gillard et al. (60) Items aimed at measuring the ability to control food intake, loss of control over eating, and reported hunger EI (50)
Eating Inventory
Bishop-Gillard et al. (60) Items aimed at measuring the BED diagnostic criteria. QWEP(49)
Questionnaire on Weight and Eating Patterns
Goossens et al. (61) Items aimed at assessing both eating attitudes and related ego dysfunction characteristics. For the purpose of this study, nag eating attitudes (i.e., drive for thinness, bulimia, and body dissatisfaction) were evaluated EDI-II (47)
Eating Disorder Inventory