title: The eating disorder examination-questionnaire 8: A brief measure of eating disorder psychopathology (EDE-Q8).
abstract: The aim of this study was to develop, evaluate, and standardize a short form of the well-established Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q). The newly developed EDE-Q8 was required to reflect the originally postulated structure of the EDE-Q.
  
  
  
  Data were drawn from two nationwide representative population surveys in Germany: a survey conducted to develop the EDE-Q8 in 2009 (N = 2,520); and a survey conducted in 2013 (N = 2,508) for the evaluation and calculation of EDE-Q8 percentiles.
  
  
  
  The EDE-Q8 had excellent item characteristics, very good reliability and a very good model fit for the postulated second-order factorial structure. Furthermore, a strong correlation between the EDE-Q8 and a 13 item short form of the Eating Attitudes Test was observed.
  
  
  
  The EDE-Q8 appears to be particularly suitable in epidemiological research, when an economical assessment of global eating disorder psychopathology is required. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2016; 49:613-616).
authors.affiliation: Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany.
authors.forename: Sören
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kliem
authors.affiliation: Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Hanover, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mößle
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.|Department of Applied Human Studies, University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg and Stendal, Stendal, Germany.
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zenger
authors.affiliation: Institute of Psychosocial Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: Bernhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Strauß
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.|Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
authors.forename: Elmar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brähler
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.|Integrated Research and Treatment Center Adiposity Diseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Anja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hilbert
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D035843:Biomedical Research; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q); eating disorder; eating disorder psychopathology; obesity; symptom assessment