| Full text | |
| Author(s): |
Tatiana Moya
;
Bacy Fleitlich-Bilyk
;
Robert Goodman
[3]
;
Fabiana Chamelet Nogueira
;
Patrícia Souza Focchi
;
Manoela Nicoletti
;
Vanessa Pinzon
;
Táki Athanássios Cordás
[8]
;
Francisco Lotufo Neto
[9]
Total Authors: 9
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria; v. 27, n. 1, p. 25-31, 2005-03-00. |
| Abstract | |
OBJECTIVE: Development and validation of the Eating Disorders Section of the Development and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA). It is a package of questionnaires, interviews and evaluation techniques, designed to generate DSM-IV and ICD-10 based diagnoses of anorexia, bulimia nervosa and the respective partial syndromes in epidemiological studies, in subjects who are 7 to 17 years old. The parents are interviewed in all cases, as are young people aged 11 or more. METHODS: 174 girls, divided into three groups, were assessed with the Eating Disorders Section of the Development and Well-Being Assessment: 48 with eating disorders, 55 clinical controls (with depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder or gastrointestinal disease) and 71 community controls. The sensitivity, specificity and predictive values of the assessment were investigated by comparing the Development and Well-Being Assessment diagnoses with independent psychiatric diagnoses. The test-retest reliability was investigated by reapplying the measure on 55 subjects after 2 or 3 weeks. RESULTS: For the detection of any DSM-IV and ICD-10 eating disorder, the final Development and Well-Being Assessment diagnosis had a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 94%, positive predictive value of 88%, and a negative predictive value of 100%; there was 95% agreement between the initial and repeat diagnoses (a kappa of 0.81). CONCLUSION: The Eating Disorders Section of the Development and Well-Being Assessment has suitable psychometric properties for use in clinical and epidemiological studies. (AU) | |