[Cross-cultural adaptation of the Eating Disorder Examination into Spanish].
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.
Robles
Mariano E
ME
Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, España.
Oberst
Ursula E
UE
Sánchez-Planell
Luis
L
Chamarro
Ander
A
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