Journal article
Screening Obese Adolescents for Binge Eating Disorder in Primary Care: The Adolescent Binge Eating Scale.
- Chamay-Weber C 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.
- Combescure C Clinical Research Center & Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Health and Community Medicine, University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Lanza L Pediatric Obesity Consultation Contrepoids, Division of Pediatric Specialties, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals of Geneva, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
- Carrard I Nutrition and Dietetics Department, School of Health Sciences-Geneva, Switzerland.
- Haller DM 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.
- 2017-03-14
Published in:
- The Journal of pediatrics. - 2017
adolescents
binge eating
obesity
primary care
questionnaire
screening
Adolescent
Binge-Eating Disorder
Child
Female
Humans
Male
Pediatric Obesity
Predictive Value of Tests
Primary Health Care
Risk Assessment
Surveys and Questionnaires
Switzerland
English
OBJECTIVE
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.
STUDY DESIGN
We evaluated the performance of the questionnaire in comparison with a clinical interview, in a population of adolescents being seen for obesity. The ?2 or Fisher exact tests were used.
RESULTS
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%).
CONCLUSIONS
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.
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.
STUDY DESIGN
We evaluated the performance of the questionnaire in comparison with a clinical interview, in a population of adolescents being seen for obesity. The ?2 or Fisher exact tests were used.
RESULTS
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%).
CONCLUSIONS
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.
- Language
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- English
- Open access status
- closed
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- DOI 10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.02.038
- PMID 28285753
- Persistent URL
- https://sonar.rero.ch/global/documents/103521
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