A measure for the assessment of eating disorders: reliability and validity studies of the Rating of Anorexia and Bulimia interview - revised version (RAB-R).
The Rating of Anorexia and Bulimia interview (RAB) is a Swedish semi-structured interview for clinical and research purposes for a wide range of eating disorder symptoms and related psychopathology. The objectives were to evaluate the reliability and validity of a revised RAB version (RAB-R). The RAB-R was assessed in terms of internal consistency, inter-rater and test-retest reliability, and criterion and convergent validity. Samples included a clinical sample of eating disorder patients (n = 71) and a sample of randomly drawn female controls (n = 31). The RAB-R showed satisfactory internal consistency, inter-rater and test-retest reliability, correlated well with related measures, and discriminated between patients and normal controls. We conclude that the RAB-R is a promising interview instrument and continued evaluation should focus on comparing subgroups of eating disorder patients with other clinical groups.
Nevonen
Lauri
L
Department of Psychology, Göteborg University, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Centre, Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Sweden. Lauri.Nevonen@Vgregion.se
Broberg
Anders G
AG
Clinton
David
D
Norring
Claes
C
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000856:Anorexia Nervosa / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002032:Bulimia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D015203:Reproducibility of Results