PHQ Eating
ValidatedPatient Health Questionnaire – Eating Disorder Module (PHQ-ED)
18+ yearsSelf~2 min8 questions
Questions about eating. Answer each question "Yes" or "No".
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About this screener — evidence, source
Questions 6–8 of the full Patient Health Questionnaire: loss of control over eating, eating unusually large amounts within two hours, frequency (twice a week for 3 months), compensatory behaviours to avoid weight gain, and their frequency. Scored with the official PHQ office-coding algorithm for provisional bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder.
Evidence · validated
Validated as part of the PHQ in 3000 US primary-care patients (Spitzer et al., 1999). In a US community (health-plan) sample, the PHQ eating disorder module had sensitivity 100% and specificity 92% for bulimia nervosa / binge eating disorder or recurrent binge eating, but a low positive predictive value (10–19%); the authors recommend follow-up questions to confirm objective binge episodes (Striegel-Moore et al., Int J Eat Disord 2010;43:337–343).
Source & licence
Spitzer RL, Kroenke K, Williams JBW, and the Patient Health Questionnaire Primary Care Study Group. Validation and utility of a self-report version of PRIME-MD: the PHQ primary care study. JAMA. 1999;282(18):1737–1744. Developed by Drs Robert L. Spitzer, Janet B.W. Williams, Kurt Kroenke and colleagues, with an educational grant from Pfizer Inc.
Licence: Public domain — the PHQ form states "No permission required to reproduce, translate, display or distribute", and the PHQ Instruction Manual states all PHQ measures are in the public domain.
Questions 6a–c, 7a–d and 8 of the official English full PHQ (page 3; copy hosted by the Government of the Northwest Territories, https://www.hss.gov.nt.ca/professionals/en/patient-health-questionnaire-phq). Scoring from the form's office-coding footer and Table 2 of the PHQ Instruction Manual. The PHQ's final difficulty question (#11), which refers to the whole questionnaire, is not included.
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