Cross-Cultural Validity of EDI-1 Among Clinical and Non-Clinical Taiwanese Population

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00172874

Enrollment

1500

Registered

2005-09-15

Start date

1998-01-31

Completion date

2008-12-31

Last updated

2008-12-31

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Conditions

Eating Disorders

Keywords

cross-cultural,, eating disorders,, EDI,, psychometrics

Brief summary

The aim of the study is to understand the clinical characteristics of Taiwanese eating disorders as well as establishment of the psychometric properties of eating disorder-related questionnaires (EDI and BITE).

Detailed description

The study subjects include three group of population: 1st group is non-clinical nursing college students (N=800); 2nd group is clinical eating disorder patients (N=600) and 3rd group is age-, sex-matched clinical non-eating disorder patients (N=600). Clinical patients are screened by eating disorder module of the SCID and are grouped into eating disorder or non-eating disorder group. After written informed consent, eating disorder patients will receive clinical assessments which included important clinical characteristics and psychopathology of eating disorders by experienced senior psychiatrists. All clinical patients are asked to complete the self-rating scales which included eating and general psychological functioning questionnaires.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* patients with eating disorders, * patients with non-eating disorders, * nursing school students

Exclusion criteria

* None

Countries

Taiwan

Outcome results