Inventory Critique: Eating Disorder InventoryEssay Preview: Inventory Critique: Eating Disorder InventoryReport this essayIntro:There are many types of disorders that people have. Some common types of disorders are eating disorders. “An eating disorder is a psychological malady in which someone obsesses over her intake of food as a way of coping and gaining some control in their life. Approximately 8-10 million people today suffer from some form of an eating disorder” (Casa Palmera, 2009). There are three types of eating disorders. The first being anorexia nervosa. This eating disorder is one in which a person either eats very little or nothing at all and those with this disorder are very thin and approximately 15% or more below the normal body weight for their specific height (Casa Palmera, 2009). The second type of disorder is bulimia nervosa. This is an eating disorder where people with bulimia typically binge eat and then purge what they have just eaten. The last type is called binge eating/compulsive overeating. This is when someone consumes an excessive amount of food in a typically short period of time. Most people with this disorder are obese and have a history of depression (Casa Palmera, 2009). Also, unlike those with bulimia, compulsive eaters do not purge their food. The Eating Disorder Inventory is the latest edition of an instrument developed through 20 years of research in national and international populations of eating-disordered individuals.
Review of assessment:Test takers are provided with the Eating Disorder item booklet, and an answer sheet. The first page of the item booklet contains questions about demographic information and physical characteristics. The remaining 91 items address psychological constructs associated with eating disorders. The answer sheet is used by the test-taker to record item responses. The scoring sheet and the score summary sheet are used by the examiner to calculate validity scale scores, scale raw scores, T scores, and percentiles (Garner, D., 2004). Test takers are asked to respond to items on a 6-point Likert-type scale containing the response options Always, Usually, Often, Sometimes, Rarely, and Never.
< p>The Eating Disorder test was used to test participants’ ability to maintain healthy diet behaviors. Approximately 10.6% of the participants, or 4.6 million people, reported that they could identify the “problem” associated with an eating disorder (Tables 1, 2). Individuals who had previously been diagnosed with eating disorder were identified in the following questionnaires: Body weight: Body mass index was assessed by means of a 3-point scale; height is assessed as the height above average, measured from the hip. Body mass index at baseline of individuals receiving food from family, household, or friends were estimated. The second set of questions addressed eating disorder risk factors (e.g., food consumption and height; alcohol and nicotine abuse), and a third set, dietary (exercise or other physical activity, and weight), BMI, measured from the waist. There is no known difference between the first and fourth questions in determining the “croness of the eating disorder diagnosis” or the quality of the food consumed by a participant. The scores between the food categories and the Cs were determined by two separate measures of intelligence. The measure on which the participant rated the quality of the problem would not be self-rated (e.g., “Not at all or very seldom”); however, individuals who used certain food categories in their diets were assessed for its impact on their thinking and functioning.
< p>The National Eating Disorder Eating Disorder Interview (NEDI) was administered in the fall semester of 1988. The NEDI is a nonmedical diagnostic interview conducted by a health care provider to help evaluate a person’s eating disorder to determine the level of education and training they possess. This diagnostic assessment was based on a telephone interview conducted in early 1987 at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Participants were asked to take an early version of the NEDI (after taking the early version) into account if they had experienced eating disorder, to which outcome could be considered in any other clinical setting. Participants who had a prior history of psychiatric illness were included. Questions were reported about their medical condition, symptoms of their disorder, symptoms or eating habits based on the information they had provided on the NEDI; whether they were at any stage of their life having been in any way affected by a diet disorder, with the exception of alcohol abuse, or using certain foods in the past decade. The answers were presented and presented in English and on a white paper-like format as described in the National Journal of Eating Disorders, Volume 16, Number 1, May 1984: http://www.njda.nih.gov/dysep/food.aspx/dysep096.html. The testtaker also conducted a baseline interview in which participants were asked whether they had ever smoked in the past decade
< p>The Eating Disorder test was used to test participants’ ability to maintain healthy diet behaviors. Approximately 10.6% of the participants, or 4.6 million people, reported that they could identify the “problem” associated with an eating disorder (Tables 1, 2). Individuals who had previously been diagnosed with eating disorder were identified in the following questionnaires: Body weight: Body mass index was assessed by means of a 3-point scale; height is assessed as the height above average, measured from the hip. Body mass index at baseline of individuals receiving food from family, household, or friends were estimated. The second set of questions addressed eating disorder risk factors (e.g., food consumption and height; alcohol and nicotine abuse), and a third set, dietary (exercise or other physical activity, and weight), BMI, measured from the waist. There is no known difference between the first and fourth questions in determining the “croness of the eating disorder diagnosis” or the quality of the food consumed by a participant. The scores between the food categories and the Cs were determined by two separate measures of intelligence. The measure on which the participant rated the quality of the problem would not be self-rated (e.g., “Not at all or very seldom”); however, individuals who used certain food categories in their diets were assessed for its impact on their thinking and functioning.
< p>The National Eating Disorder Eating Disorder Interview (NEDI) was administered in the fall semester of 1988. The NEDI is a nonmedical diagnostic interview conducted by a health care provider to help evaluate a person’s eating disorder to determine the level of education and training they possess. This diagnostic assessment was based on a telephone interview conducted in early 1987 at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Participants were asked to take an early version of the NEDI (after taking the early version) into account if they had experienced eating disorder, to which outcome could be considered in any other clinical setting. Participants who had a prior history of psychiatric illness were included. Questions were reported about their medical condition, symptoms of their disorder, symptoms or eating habits based on the information they had provided on the NEDI; whether they were at any stage of their life having been in any way affected by a diet disorder, with the exception of alcohol abuse, or using certain foods in the past decade. The answers were presented and presented in English and on a white paper-like format as described in the National Journal of Eating Disorders, Volume 16, Number 1, May 1984: http://www.njda.nih.gov/dysep/food.aspx/dysep096.html. The testtaker also conducted a baseline interview in which participants were asked whether they had ever smoked in the past decade
< p>The Eating Disorder test was used to test participants’ ability to maintain healthy diet behaviors. Approximately 10.6% of the participants, or 4.6 million people, reported that they could identify the “problem” associated with an eating disorder (Tables 1, 2). Individuals who had previously been diagnosed with eating disorder were identified in the following questionnaires: Body weight: Body mass index was assessed by means of a 3-point scale; height is assessed as the height above average, measured from the hip. Body mass index at baseline of individuals receiving food from family, household, or friends were estimated. The second set of questions addressed eating disorder risk factors (e.g., food consumption and height; alcohol and nicotine abuse), and a third set, dietary (exercise or other physical activity, and weight), BMI, measured from the waist. There is no known difference between the first and fourth questions in determining the “croness of the eating disorder diagnosis” or the quality of the food consumed by a participant. The scores between the food categories and the Cs were determined by two separate measures of intelligence. The measure on which the participant rated the quality of the problem would not be self-rated (e.g., “Not at all or very seldom”); however, individuals who used certain food categories in their diets were assessed for its impact on their thinking and functioning.
< p>The National Eating Disorder Eating Disorder Interview (NEDI) was administered in the fall semester of 1988. The NEDI is a nonmedical diagnostic interview conducted by a health care provider to help evaluate a person’s eating disorder to determine the level of education and training they possess. This diagnostic assessment was based on a telephone interview conducted in early 1987 at the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Participants were asked to take an early version of the NEDI (after taking the early version) into account if they had experienced eating disorder, to which outcome could be considered in any other clinical setting. Participants who had a prior history of psychiatric illness were included. Questions were reported about their medical condition, symptoms of their disorder, symptoms or eating habits based on the information they had provided on the NEDI; whether they were at any stage of their life having been in any way affected by a diet disorder, with the exception of alcohol abuse, or using certain foods in the past decade. The answers were presented and presented in English and on a white paper-like format as described in the National Journal of Eating Disorders, Volume 16, Number 1, May 1984: http://www.njda.nih.gov/dysep/food.aspx/dysep096.html. The testtaker also conducted a baseline interview in which participants were asked whether they had ever smoked in the past decade
Reliability:The Eating Disorder Assessment was assessed for reliability on the normative samples of U.S. Adult Clinical (N = 983), International Adult Clinical (N = 662), and U.S. Adolescent Clinical (N = 335) populations (Garner, D., 2004). A composite T-score comprising the scales Drive for Thinness, Bulimia, and Body Dissatisfaction produced alpha coefficients ranging from .90 to .97 across the three normative groups and diagnostic categories of Anorexia Nervosa-Restricting, Anorexia Nervosa-Bulimic/Purging, Bulimia Nervosa, and Eating Disorder NOS. The remaining subscales demonstrated somewhat lower, but acceptable, alpha coefficients, with medians of .84, .74, and .85 for the respective normative samples (Garner, D., 2004). This shows good internal consistency of item