title: Binge eating in interview versus self-report: different diagnoses show different divergences.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Binge eating (BE) is diagnostically important for eating disorders (EDs) but difficult to measure validly and reliably. The study compared interview and questionnaire formats regarding the proportion of patients in each diagnostic group who reported BE.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data came from the clinical Stepwise ED database (N=3508 adults and 1354 children/adolescents), representing the full range of ED diagnoses. Methods used were the Structured ED Interview and the ED Examination Questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Opposite discrepancies were observed between methods depending on ED diagnosis, such that a higher number of restrictive patients reported BE on the questionnaire than the interview, whereas the opposite was true for bulimic patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings have important clinical and theoretical implications and suggest that BE assessment is more complex than previously believed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Resource Center for Eating Disorders, Stockholm Center for Psychiatry Research and Education, Karolinska Institute and Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Birgegård
authors.forename: Claes
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Norring
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Clinton
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D056912:Binge-Eating Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002032:Bulimia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D013548:Sweden; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: assessment; binge eating; diagnostics