Welcome to your Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire EDE-Q
Overview
Terms of use
Interpretation Higher scores on the global scale and subscales denote more problematic eating behaviours and attitudes. Carey et al. (2019) published norms for UK adult community males and females, which can be found here: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/141195/1/Manuscript_PAS_2018_2281.pdf
Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire © (EDE-Q 6.0) Instructions: The following questions are concerned with the past four weeks (28 days) only. Please read each question carefully. Please answer all the questions. Thank you. Questions 1 to 12: Please circle the appropriate number on the right. Remember that the questions only refer to the past four weeks (28 days) only.
On how many of the last 28 days....
1. Have you been deliberately trying to limit the amount of food you eat to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?
2. Have you gone for long periods of time (8 waking hours or more) without eating anything at all in order to influence your shape or weight?
3. Have you tried to exclude from your diet any foods that you like in order to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?
4. Have you tried to follow definite rules regarding your eating (for example, a calorie limit) in order to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?
5. Have you had a definite desire to have an empty stomach with the aim of influencing your shape or weight?
6. Have you had a definite desire to have a totally flat stomach?
7. Has thinking about food, eating or calories made it very difficult to concentrate on things you are interested in (for example, working, following a conversation, or reading)?
8. Has thinking about shape or weight made it very difficult to concentrate on things you are interested in (for example, working, following a conversation, or reading)?
9. Have you had a definite fear of losing control over eating?
10. Have you had a definite fear that you might gain weight?
12. Have you had a strong desire to lose weight?
Questions 13—18: Please fill in the appropriate number in the boxes on the right. Remember that the questions only refer to the past four weeks (28 days).
These questions are to determine frequency data on key behavioural features of eating disorders in terms of number of episodes of the behaviour. These questions do not contribute to the scores generated in the other scales, but can be used to determine the possibility and frequency of bulimic issues. If you
Questions 19 to 21: Please circle the appropriate number. Please note that for these questions the term “binge eating” means eating what others would regard as an unusually large amount of food for the circumstances, accompanied by a sense of having lost control over eating.
19. Over the past 28 days, on how many days have you eaten in secret (ie, furtively)? … Do not count episodes of binge eating.
20. On what proportion of the times that you have eaten have you felt guilty (felt that you’ve done wrong) because of its effect on your shape or weight? … Do not count episodes of binge eating.
21. Over the past 28 days, how concerned have you been about other people seeing you eat? … Do not count episodes of binge eating.
Questions 22 to 28: Please circle the appropriate number on the right. Remember that the questions only refer to the past four weeks (28 days).
Over the past four weeks (28 days)….
22. Has your weight influenced how you think about (judge) yourself as a person?
23. Has your shape influenced how you think about (judge) yourself as a person?
24. How much would it have upset you if you had been asked to weigh yourself once a week (no more, or less, often) for the next four weeks?
25. How dissatisfied have you been with your weight?
26. How dissatisfied have you been with your shape?
27. How uncomfortable have you felt seeing your body (for example, seeing your shape in the mirror, in a shop window reflection, while undressing or taking a bath or shower)?
28. How uncomfortable have you felt about others seeing your shape or figure (for example, in communal changing rooms, when swimming, or wearing tight clothes)?
