Assessment of Eating and Weight Disorders

Various past and ongoing studies involving the development, translation, and psychometric properties of assessment measures. An ongoing study to investigate the Norwegian version of the Implicit Attitudes Test related to implicit and explicit attitudes toward preference for thinness and weight-related bias.

Contact person Deborah Lynn Reas. 

Publications:

Wisting L, Johnson SU, Bulik CM, Andreassen OA, Rø Ø, Bang L. Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) in a large female sample of adults with and without eating disorders. BMC Psychiatry. 2021 Jan 5;21(1):6. doi: 10.1186/s12888-020-03013-0. PMID: 33402149; PMCID: PMC7786911.

Reas DL, Dahlgren Lindvall C, Wonderlich J, Rø Ø (2019). Intentional Exposure to Extreme Cold Temperature to Influence Shape and/or Weight and Its Association to Eating Disorder Pathology. Front Psychol, 10, 2539. DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02539

Reas DL, Lindvall Dahlgren C, Wonderlich J, Syversen G, Lundin Kvalem I (2018)
Confirmatory factor analysis and psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Repetitive Eating Questionnaire: Further evidence for two distinct subtypes of grazing behavior. Eur Eat Disord Rev, 27 (2), 205-211. DOI 10.1002/erv.2631

Reas DL, Stedal K, Lindvall Dahlgren C, Rø Ø (2016). Impairment due to eating disorder pathology: Identifying the cut-off score on the Clinical Impairment Assessment in a clinical and community sample. Int J Eat Disord, 49 (6), 635-8. DOI 10.1002/eat.22517

Reas DL, Stedal K, Lindvall Dahlgren C, Rø Ø (2016). Impairment due to eating disorder pathology: Identifying the cut-off score on the Clinical Impairment Assessment in a clinical and community sample. Int J Eat Disord, 49 (6), 635-8. DOI 10.1002/eat.22517

Reas DL, Øverås M, Rø O (2012). Norms for the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) among high school and university men. Eat Disord, 20 (5), 437-43. DOI 10.1080/10640266.2012.715523

Rø Ø, Reas DL, Rosenvinge J (2012). The impact of age and BMI on Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) scores in a community sample. Eat Behav, 13 (2), 158-61. DOI 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2011.12.001

Core pathology of eating disorders as measured by the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q): the predictive role of a nested general (g) and primary factors.  Int J Methods Psychiatr Res, 22 (3), 195-203. DOI 10.1002/mpr.1389

Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) in Norwegian Adults: Discrimination between Female Controls and Eating Disorder Patients. Eur Eat Disord Rev, 23 (5), 408-12. DOI 10.1002/erv.2372 

Reas DL, Wisting L, Kapstad H, Lask B (2011). Convergent validity of the eating disorder examination and the eating disorder examination-questionnaire among university women in Norway. Eur Eat Disord Rev, 19 (4), 357-61. DOI 10.1002/erv.1068.

Factor structure and construct validity of the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire in college students: further support for a modified brief version
Int J Eat Disord, 48 (3), 284-9. DOI 10.1002/eat.22358

Rø O, Reas DL, Lask B (2010). Norms for the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire among female university students in Norway. Nord J Psychiatry, 64 (6), 428-32. DOI 10.3109/08039481003797235, PubMed 20429744 

Reas DL, Rø O, Kapstad H, Lask B (2010). Psychometric properties of the clinical impairment assessment: norms for young adult women
Int J Eat Disord, 43 (1), 72-6. DOI 10.1002/eat.20653

Reas DL, White MA, Grilo CM (2006). Body Checking Questionnaire: psychometric properties and clinical correlates in obese men and women with binge eating disorder
Int J Eat Disord, 39 (4), 326-31. DOI 10.1002/eat.20236, PubMed 16528695