The portuguese version of the eating disorders inventory : evaluation of its ps...

• Author(s): Machado, Paulo P. P. ; Gonçalves, Sónia ; Martins, Carla ; Soares, Isabel
• Date: 2001
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/3134
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Eating Disorders; EDI
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The objective of the present study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI; Garner et al., 1983). Three groups participated in the current study: 274 female and 67 male non-patients, and 83 females with a diagnosis of eating disorder. Results clearly support the reliability and the factor structure of the EDI in a Portuguese sample. In addition non-patient and eating disordered participants' score significantly differently in all EDI scales, emphasizing the clinical usefulness of the measure.