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A measure for the assessment of eating disorders: Reliability and validity studies of the Rating of Anorexia and Bulimia interview – revised version (RAB‐R)
Author(s) -
Nevonen Lauri,
Broberg Anders G.,
Clinton David,
Norring Claes
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9450.00349
Subject(s) - psychology , anorexia , psychopathology , clinical psychology , eating disorders , internal consistency , reliability (semiconductor) , convergent validity , psychiatry , rab , psychometrics , rating scale , developmental psychology , medicine , gtpase , power (physics) , biochemistry , physics , chemistry , quantum mechanics
The Rating of Anorexia and Bulimia interview (RAB) is a Swedish semi‐structured interview for clinical and research purposes for a wide range of eating disorder symptoms and related psychopathology. The objectives were to evaluate the reliability and validity of a revised RAB version (RAB‐R). The RAB‐R was assessed in terms of internal consistency, inter‐rater and test–retest reliability, and criterion and convergent validity. Samples included a clinical sample of eating disorder patients ( n = 71) and a sample of randomly drawn female controls ( n = 31). The RAB‐R showed satisfactory internal consistency, inter‐rater and test–retest reliability, correlated well with related measures, and discriminated between patients and normal controls. We conclude that the RAB‐R is a promising interview instrument and continued evaluation should focus on comparing subgroups of eating disorder patients with other clinical groups.