title: The interpretation of symptoms of starvation/severe dietary restraint in eating disorder patients.
abstract: The aims of the study were to test the hypotheses that some symptoms of starvation/severe dietary restraint are interpreted by patients with eating disorders in terms of control. Sixty-nine women satisfying the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV edition (DSM-IV) criteria for a clinical eating disorder and 107 controls participated in the study. All the participants completed an ambiguous scenarios paradigm, the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Significantly more eating disorder patients than non clinical participants interpreted the starvation/dietary restraint symptoms of hunger, heightened satiety, and dizziness in terms of control. The data give further support to the recent cognitive-behavioural theory of eating disorders suggesting that eating disorder patients interpret some starvation/dietary restraint symptoms in terms of control.
authors.affiliation: Department of Eating and Weight Disorder, Villa Garda Hospital, Via Montebaldo 89, 37016 Garda (VR), Italy. rdalleg@tin.it
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Dalle Grave
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Di Pauli
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sartirana
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Calugi
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Shafran
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015992:Body Mass Index; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D013217:Starvation / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires