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Identification of Binge Eating Disorder Criteria: Results of a National Survey of Healthcare Providers.
- Source :
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship; Jul2019, Vol. 51 Issue 4, p399-407, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Purpose: To determine whether general healthcare providers and adult psychiatrists recognized binge eating disorder (BED) symptoms and features. The aims were to examine how they delineated the core criteria of BED—eating a large amount of food and sense of loss of control over eating—and how their evaluations compared to ratings by BED experts. Design: This is a cross‐sectional study of a nationwide U.S. sample of healthcare providers and a convenience sample of BED experts. Methods: Providers were mailed surveys that asked respondents about their perceptions of a large amount of food and whether they thought case vignettes met thresholds for loss of control. Participants were also asked to select BED diagnostic criteria from a symptom list. Results were analyzed using one‐way analyses of variance with post‐hoc comparisons and chi‐squared tests. Findings: The survey was completed by 405 healthcare providers (response rate of 28.4%). Ratings of a large amount of food did not differ between BED experts and general healthcare providers (p =.10) or psychiatrists (p =.90). Provider groups did not differ significantly on whether five of the six vignettes met thresholds for loss of control (p >.05). Of the respondents, 93.0% of general healthcare providers and 88.6% of psychiatrists could not correctly identify the diagnostic criteria for BED. Conclusions: Across provider groups, demarcation of a large amount of food and loss of control over eating were relatively consistent. However, general healthcare providers and psychiatrists were not able to correctly identify BED symptoms. Clinical Relevance: Training and education are greatly needed to improve knowledge of the diagnostic criteria for BED. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DIAGNOSIS of eating disorders
CONTROL (Psychology)
AGE distribution
CHI-squared test
EATING disorders
CASE studies
CLASSIFICATION of mental disorders
QUESTIONNAIRES
RACE
REGRESSION analysis
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
SEX distribution
STATISTICS
SURVEYS
DATA analysis
CROSS-sectional method
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ONE-way analysis of variance
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15276546
- Volume :
- 51
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 137286847
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12468