title: [Cross-cultural adaptation of the Eating Disorder Examination into Spanish].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study presents a cross-cultural adaptation into Spanish of the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) by Fairburn and Cooper (1993).
  
  
  METHODS
  The original English version was adapted by means of a complex successive translation-backtranslation procedure. The final Spanish version was then applied to 50 patients with eating disorders (17 diagnosed for anorexia nervosa, 19 for bulimia nervosa, and 14 for binge eating disorder) and to 30 normal control subjects.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The means and standard deviations of the group in the 4 subscales were similar to the data obtained by the normative studies of the original English version. The Spanish version also showed similarly high Cronbach alpha coefficients for reliability. As for discriminative validity, the subscales discriminated significantly between the clinical groups and the control group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Spanish version of the EDE presents adequate psychometric properties, similar to the original version.
authors.affiliation: Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, España.
authors.forename: Mariano E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Robles
authors.forename: Ursula E
authors.initials: UE
authors.lastname: Oberst
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Planell
authors.forename: Ander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chamarro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013030:Spain; D014177:Translations