title: The development of the brief eating disorder in athletes questionnaire.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The objective of this study is to design and validate a brief questionnaire able to discriminate between female elite athletes with and without an eating disorder (ED).
  
  
  METHODS
  In phase I, 221 (89.5%) adolescent athletes participated in a screening including the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2) and questions related to ED. All athletes reporting symptoms associated with ED (n = 96, 94.1%) and a random sample without symptoms (n = 88, 86.3%) attended the ED Examination Interview. On the basis of the screening, we extracted items with good predictive abilities for an ED diagnosis to the Brief ED in Athletes Questionnaire (BEDA-Q) versions 1 and 2. Version 1 consisted of seven items from the EDI-Body dissatisfaction, EDI-Drive for thinness, and questions regarding dieting. In version 2, two items from the EDI-Perfectionism subscale were added. In phase II, external predictive validity of version 1 was tested involving 54 age-matched elite athletes from an external data set. In phase III, predictive ability of posttest assessments was determined among athletes with no ED at pretest (n = 53, 100%). Logistic regression analyses were performed to identify predictors of ED.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Version 2 showed higher discriminative accuracy than version 1 in distinguishing athletes with and without an ED with a receiver operating characteristics area of 0.86 (95% confidence interval (CI), 0.78-0.93) compared with 0.83 (95% CI, 0.74-0.92). In phase II, the accuracy of version 1 was 0.77 (95% CI, 0.63-0.91). In predicting new cases, version 2 showed higher diagnostic accuracy than version 1 with a receiver operating characteristic area of 0.73 (98% CI, 0.52-0.93) compared with 0.70 (95% CI, 0.48-0.92).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The BEDA-Q containing nine items reveals good ability to distinguish between female elite athletes with and without an ED. The BEDA-Q's predictive ability should be tested in larger samples.
authors: 1Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, NORWAY; 2Department of Coaching and Psychology, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, NORWAY; 3Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Agder, Kristiansand, NORWAY; and 4Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, NORWAY.
authors: Marianne
authors: M
authors: Martinsen
authors: Ingar
authors: I
authors: Holme
authors: Anne Marte
authors: AM
authors: Pensgaard
authors: Monica Klungland
authors: MK
authors: Torstveit
authors: Jorunn
authors: J
authors: Sundgot-Borgen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics; D012649:Self Concept; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires