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. 2007 Sep;12(3):108-13.
doi: 10.1007/BF03327637.

The interpretation of symptoms of starvation/severe dietary restraint in eating disorder patients

R Dalle Grave  1 , D Di Pauli, M Sartirana, S Calugi, R Shafran
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The interpretation of symptoms of starvation/severe dietary restraint in eating disorder patients

R Dalle Grave et al. Eat Weight Disord. 2007 Sep.

Abstract

The aims of the study were to test the hypotheses that some symptoms of starvation/severe dietary restraint are interpreted by patients with eating disorders in terms of control. Sixty-nine women satisfying the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV edition (DSM-IV) criteria for a clinical eating disorder and 107 controls participated in the study. All the participants completed an ambiguous scenarios paradigm, the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Significantly more eating disorder patients than non clinical participants interpreted the starvation/dietary restraint symptoms of hunger, heightened satiety, and dizziness in terms of control. The data give further support to the recent cognitive-behavioural theory of eating disorders suggesting that eating disorder patients interpret some starvation/dietary restraint symptoms in terms of control.

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