title: Eating-related problems among 13-15 year old Swedish adolescents: frequency and stability over a one-year period.
abstract: The frequency of eating-related problems in young adolescents, and their stability over a one-year period, was studied by the RiBED-8 (Risk Behaviours related to Eating Disorders, 8 items) in a community sample of 13-15 year old adolescents who took part in a prospective study with a 2-wave longitudinal design. The RiBED-8 was found to have good reliability and construct validity among the girls, although it did not show equally convincing psychometric properties among boys. With a cut-off of at least three critical answers on the RiBED-8, 28.5-31.0% of the girls were seen as risk cases for the development of eating disorder. Of those girls who were risk cases at Time 1, a majority (68.8%) remained so at Time 2; of those girls who were not risk cases at Time 1, 16.1% became risk cases at Time 2. It is suggested that the RiBED-8 is a brief, easily administered instrument that may be potentially useful in screening for eating-related problems among girls.
authors: Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. njordur.viborg@psychology.lu.se
authors: Njördur
authors: N
authors: Viborg
authors: Margit
authors: M
authors: Wångby-Lundh
authors: Lars-Gunnar
authors: LG
authors: Lundh
authors: Per
authors: P
authors: Johnsson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001828:Body Image; D004644:Emotions; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012306:Risk; D012649:Self Concept; D017678:Sex Distribution; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden / Q000453:epidemiology