Assessment tools for self-harm behavior among those with eating disorders.
There appears to be a substantial minority of eating disorder patients who report self-harm behaviors. This paper reviews the available assessment tools relating to individuals with eating disorders and self-harm behaviors. Current eating disorder assessments do not contain any items relating to self-harm behaviors. Several of the self-harm measures contain some eating disorder items, but not a sufficient number to provide an eating disorder diagnosis. Among the self-harm measures, only three offer items relating to eating pathology as well as overt self-harm and high-lethal behaviors. One of the three has an established scoring that predicts borderline personality disorder. In summary, there are no currently available assessment tools that are able to simultaneously diagnose eating disorder pathology as well as measure self-harm behaviors.
Sansone
Randy A
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Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio, USA. Randy.sansone@kmcnetwork.org
Sansone
Lori A
LA