The SCOFF questionnaire: a new screening tool for eating disorders

饮食失调 医学 精神科 临床心理学 心理学
作者
J Morgan
出处
期刊:wjm [BMJ]
卷期号:172 (3): 164-165 被引量:206
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DOI:10.1136/ewjm.172.3.164
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The SCOFF questionnaire: a new screening tool for eating disorders Eating disorders are among the most common psychiatric disorders in young women.Early detection and treatment improve the prognosis, but the presentation of eating disorders is often cryptic-for example, via physical symptoms in primary care.The ability to diagnose the condition varies and can be inadequate, 1 and existing questionnaires for detection 2,3 are lengthy and may require specialist interpretation.No simple, memorable screening instruments are available for nonspecialists.In alcohol misuse, the CAGE questionnaire (questions about Cutting down, Annoyance with criticism, Guilty feelings, and Eyeopeners) 4 has proved popular with clinicians because of its simplicity.We developed and tested a similar tool for eating disorders, with questions designed to raise the suspicion that an eating disorder might exist before rigorous clinical assessment. PARTICIPANTS, METHODS, AND RESULTSWe developed five questions addressing core features of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, using focus groups of patients with eating disorders and specialists in eating disorders.We tested the questions in a feasibility study of patients and staff at an eating disorders unit.None of these participants was involved in the subsequent study.We created the acronym SCOFF from the questions (see box).We recruited patients sequentially from referrals to a specialist clinic: 116 women aged 18 to 40 years who were confirmed as having either anorexia nervosa (n=68 [35 binge eaters, and 33 restricted their food intake]) or bulimia (n=48), according to the criteria specified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition. 5For controls, we recruited 96 women (through advertising at local colleges), aged 18 to 39 years, who were confirmed not to have an eating disorder.Patients and controls were asked the SCOFF questions orally; they also completed the eating disorder inventory 3 and the Bulimic Investigatory Test, Edinburgh (BITE), a self-rating scale for bulimia. 2 No significant differences existed between patients and controls for age or ethnicity.As expected, more patients than controls were in the highest socioeconomic groups (P<0.001; 2 3 =47.4),and patients were more likely to be single, separated, or divorced (P<0.001; 2 1 =13.0).The mean length of illness for patients was 8 years (SD, 4.8; range, 1-25 years).The mean (SD) body mass index (weight [kg]/[height (m)] 2 ) for controls, patients with bulima, and patients with anorexia was 22.3 (1.9), 24.4 (1.8), and 15.1 (0.8), respectively.All scores on the eating disorder inventory and the BITE scale were consistent with published data for women with or without eating disorders. 2,

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