title: Screening Obese Adolescents for Binge Eating Disorder in Primary Care: The Adolescent Binge Eating Scale.
abstract: To investigate the performance of a simple and developmentally appropriate 10-item questionnaire (Adolescent Binge Eating Scale) for the prediction of binge eating disorder (BED) diagnosis in adolescents seen for obesity.
  
  
  
  We evaluated the performance of the questionnaire in comparison with a clinical interview, in a population of adolescents being seen for obesity. The ?2or Fisher exact tests were used.
  
  
  
  There were 94 adolescents aged 12-18 years (59.6% girls) who completed the study. The questionnaire demonstrated a good association with the clinical interview and distinguished different levels of risk for having a BED: participants who responded positively to questions 1 or 2 and had more than 6 positive answers to the 8 additional questions had a high risk of subclinical and clinical BED (83.3%); participants with 3 or fewer positive answers had a low risk of clinical BED (4%).
  
  
  
  The Adolescent Binge Eating Scale questionnaire is a potential screening tool to identify adolescents with obesity at high risk of BED and guide referral to a specialist to clarify the diagnosis and provide adequate care.
authors.affiliation: Adolescent Medicine Unit, Adolescent and Young Adult Program, Department of Pediatrics & Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Pediatric Obesity Consultation Contrepoids, Division of Pediatric Specialties, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: catherine.chamayweber@hcuge.ch.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chamay-Weber
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research Center & Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Health and Community Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Christophe
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Combescure
authors.affiliation: Pediatric Obesity Consultation Contrepoids, Division of Pediatric Specialties, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Lydia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lanza
authors.affiliation: Nutrition and Dietetics Department, School of Health Sciences-Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Isabelle
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Carrard
authors.affiliation: Adolescent Medicine Unit, Adolescent and Young Adult Program, Department of Pediatrics & Department of Community Medicine, Primary Care and Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Primary Care Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Dagmar M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Haller
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D056912:Binge-Eating Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D063766:Pediatric Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011320:Primary Health Care; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013557:Switzerland
keywords: adolescents; binge eating; obesity; primary care; questionnaire; screening