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. 2019 Jun 21;24(4):671–682. doi: 10.1007/s40519-019-00735-3

Table 1.

Table reporting the most important information for each diagnostic tool

Author Year Country ON conceptualization No. of adaptations No. of studies that used the tool Main criticisms
BOT Bratman and Knight 2000 USA Obsession over healthy eating, which seems to be acquiring the characteristics of an ED 2 7 Lack of validation [1214]
ORTO-15 Donini et al. 2004, 2005 Italy Eating behavior disorder, characterized by a combination of eating, behavioral, and obsessive-phobic personality traits 10 32

Overestimation of ON prevalence [9, 1518]

Weak psychometric properties [9, 15, 19, 20]

EHQ Gleaves, Ambwani and Graham 2013 USA Overwhelming preoccupation on eating healthfully 5 Lack of criterion-related validity [21]
DOS Barthels, Meyer, and Pietrowsky 2015 Germany A possibly pathological fixation on a healthy diet 1 5 Inability to differentiate between anorexic and orthorexic patients [22]
BOS Bauer et al. 2018 Spain Pathological fixation on healthy food intake
TOS Barrada and Roncero 2018 Spain An extreme or excessive preoccupation with eating food believed to be healthy