Talk:Eating Attitudes Test

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Within the "Development and History" section, the sentence beginning with "Accordingly, individuals who score..." the word "then" needs to be replaced with the word "than".

Within the "Limitations" section, the following information might prove useful:

Current cultural patterns of eating in today's society often lead to high scores in the items used to measure dieting. Since these items are not correlated with behaviors associated with anorexia, false positives are very common Psychometric Properties of the EAT; Ocker, et al. (2007), DOI:10.1080/10913670709337010. A 16-item EAT with four sub-scales (Self-Perception of Body Shape, Dieting, Awareness of Food Contents, and Food Preoccupation) appears to be more valid than the original 26 item, three-factor model Ocker, et al. (2007), DOI:10.1080/10913670709337010. Changing patterns in eating around the world could increasingly affect the validity of the EAT-26.

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Edits to the "Limitations" Section

 * I plan on adding citations and explicitly stating what some limitations of EAT are. --WikiStudent11520 (talk) 21:55, 15 April 2021 (UTC)

"There are some general concerns with the EAT-26. First, varied symptoms of eating disorders and self-report instruments like the EAT measure symptoms only at that particular point in time. Therefore, considerable fluctuation is possible in some aspects of the eating disorder. Additionally, as it occurs with self-report measures generally, high scores on the EAT is typically influenced by a person's attitude. For example, a person might disclose less about their problems in order to be more socially desirable. The EAT has low positive predictive value because of denial and social desirability, as well as the possible confounding role of co-morbid factors." --WikiStudent11520 (talk) 22:52, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I removed the the following paragraph d/t repetition of previously stated information:


 * Added 10 citations --WikiStudent11520 (talk) 01:52, 20 April 2021 (UTC)

Edits to the Lead Section

 * I removed the phrase "self-report self-report measure" at the beginning of the article d/t repetition.--WikiStudent11520 (talk) 22:53, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
 * I removed the following phrase to keep the introduction focused: "Screening for eating disorders is based on the assumption that early identification can lead to earlier treatment, thereby reducing serious physical and psychological complications or even death." --WikiStudent11520 (talk) 02:01, 20 April 2021 (UTC)