Testing the validity of eating disorder diagnoses.
OBJECTIVE
This paper overviews the issue of validity testing for eating disorder diagnoses.


METHODS
A variety of different approaches to validity testing are reviewed, with an emphasis on clinically oriented validity testing for the DSM-V.


RESULTS
Validators of eating disorder diagnoses are likely to vary in terms of their scientific and clinical utility. Given that the DSM-V is a clinical document, validators which provide predictive clinical information will be most useful.


CONCLUSIONS
Clinicians and researchers alike may differ in their approach to validating eating disorder diagnoses depending on the purpose of the validation.
Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Grand Fork, North Dakota 58102, USA. stephenw@medicine.nodak.edu
Stephen A
SA
Wonderlich
Ross D
RD
Crosby
James E
JE
Mitchell
Scott G
SG
Engel
D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000145:classification* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D054928:Validation Studies as Topic