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. 2021 Sep 6;9:109. doi: 10.1186/s40337-021-00464-y

Table 1.

Items of the InsideOut Institute Screener

Theme Item
Relationship with fooda

1. How is your relationship with food?

(For example: is food and eating worry free, or is it full of worry and stress?)

Body & self-wortha

2. Does your weight, body or shape make you feel bad about yourself?

(For example: the number on the scale, the shape of your body or a part of your body.)

Preoccupation with food or weighta

3. Do you feel like food, weight or your body shape dominates your life?

(For example: experiencing constant thoughts about food, weight or your body.)

Anxiety and distressb

4. Do you feel anxious or distressed when you are not in control of your food?

(For example: when others cook or prepare food for you or when eating out.)

Loss of controlc

5. Do you ever feel like you will not be able to stop eating or have lost control around food?

(For example: feeling that you have no control around food, that you binge eat or fear that you will binge eat.)

Compensatory behaviourd

6. When you think you have eaten too much, do you do anything to make up for it?

(For example: skipping the next meal, going light on the next meal, working it off with exercise, purging via vomiting or taking laxatives, diuretics or diet pills.)

Items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale, where 1 is “never” and 5 is “all the time”; except for Question 1, where 1 is “worry and stress free” and 5 is “full of worry and stress”

aRelates to all presentations

bRelates to AN, BN and OSFED presentations

cRelates to BN, BED, and OSFED presentations

dRelates to AN-BP, BN, Purging Disorder and OSFED presentations