Is body checking in the eating disorders more closely related to diagnosis or to symptom presentation?

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2704-2711

  Mountford, Victoria ^a,b   Haase, Anne M ^c   Waller, Glenn ^d,e  

^a SPRINGFIELD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRAL AND NORTH WEST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binge; Body checking; Eating disorder; Exercise; Purge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BINGE EATING DISORDER; BODY IMAGE; BODY WEIGHT; BULIMIA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SYMPTOM; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BODY IMAGE; BULIMIA NERVOSA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EATING DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 34948875829     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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