Form: Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire, EDE-Q

1.

On how many of the past 28 days...

Have you been deliberately trying to limit the amount of food you eat to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
2. Have you gone for long periods of time (8 waking hours or more) without eating anything at all in order to influence your shape or weight?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
3. Have you tried to exclude from your diet any foods that you like in order to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
4. Have you tried to follow definite rules regarding your eating (for example, a calorie limit) in order to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
5. Have you had a definite desire to have an empty stomach with the aim of influencing your shape or weight?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
6. Have you had a definite desire to have a totally flat stomach?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
7. Has thinking about food, eating or calories made it very difficult to concentrate on things you are interested in (for example, working, following a conversation, or reading)?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
8. Has thinking about shape or weight made it very difficult to concentrate on things you are interested in (for example, working, following a conversation, or reading)?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
9. Have you had a definite fear of losing control over eating?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
10. Have you had a definite fear that you might gain weight?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
11. Have you felt fat?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
12. Have you had a strong desire to lose weight?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
13.

Over the past 28 days, how many times have you eaten what other people would regard as an unusually large amount of food (given the circumstances)?
Never
1-2
3-5
6-9
10-15
16-20
More
14. On how many of these times did you have a sense of having lost control over your eating (at the time you were eating)?
Never
1-2
3-5
6-9
10-15
16-20
More
15. Over the past 28 days, on how many days have such episodes of overeating occurred (i.e. you have eaten an unusually large amount of food and have had a sense of loss of control at the time)?
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
16. Over the past 28 days, how many times have you made yourself sick (vomit) as a means of controlling your shape or weight?
Never
1-2
3-5
6-9
10-15
16-20
More
17. Over the past 28 days, how many times have you taken laxatives as a means of controlling your shape or weight?
Never
1-2
3-5
6-9
10-15
16-20
More
18. Over the past 28 days, how many times have you exercised in a “driven” or “compulsive” way as a means of controlling your weight, shape or amount of fat, or to burn off calories?
Never
1-2
3-5
6-9
10-15
16-20
More
19. Over the past 28 days, on how many days have you eaten in secret (ie, furtively)?
Do not count episodes of binge eating.
No days
1-5 days
6-12 days
13-15 days
16-22 days
23-27 days
Every day
20. On what proportion of the times that you have eaten have you felt guilty (felt that you've done wrong) because of its effect on your shape or weight?
Do not count episodes of binge eating.
None of the times
A few of the times
Less than half
Half of the times
More than half
Most of the time
Every time
21. Over the past 28 days, how concerned have you been about other people seeing you eat?
Do not count episodes of binge eating.
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly
22. Has your weight influenced how you think about (judge) yourself as a person?
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly
23. Has your shape influenced how you think about (judge) yourself as a person?
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly
24. How much would it have upset you if you had been asked to weigh yourself once a week (no more, or less, often) for the next four weeks?
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly
25. How dissatisfied have you been with your weight?
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly
26. How dissatisfied have you been with your shape?
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly
27. How uncomfortable have you felt seeing your body (for example, seeing your shape in the mirror, in a shop window reflection, while undressing or taking a bath or shower)?
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly
28. How uncomfortable have you felt about others seeing your shape or figure (for example, in communal changing rooms, when swimming, or wearing tight clothes)?
0 : Not at all
1
2 : Slightly
3
4 : Moderately
5
6 : Markedly

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