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Update on SCANS: A screening instrument for identifying individuals at risk of developing an eating disorder
Author(s) -
Slade Peter D.,
Dewey Michael E.,
Kiemle Gundi,
Clin M.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/1098-108x(199009)9:5<583::aid-eat2260090515>3.0.co;2-a
Subject(s) - anorexia nervosa , bulimia nervosa , eating disorders , psychology , overweight , perfectionism (psychology) , clinical psychology , psychometrics , psychiatry , body mass index , medicine , pathology
The SCANS questionnaire was developed initially to measure the hypothesized setting conditions for anorexia nervosa that formed the basis of the first author's functional model of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa (Slade 1982). In the initial validation study (Slade & Dewey, 1986), we found that the two main scales, namely “general dissatisfaction” and “perfectionism”, in combination provided good discrimination between a sample of 712 normal female subjects and a sample of 40 eating disorder patients. We have used this scale in a number of other studies to compare high‐risk versus low‐risk female students (Kiemle, Slade, & Dewey, 1987), to study marathon runners (Owens & Slade, 1987), and to study overweight subjects before and after weight loss (Brodie & Slade, 1988, 1990). We have increased also the sample sizes of subjects with eating disorders and those without. These larger validation samples form the subject of the present brief report.