EDE-Q 6.0 Questionnaire

Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire

Assessment Instructions

The following questions are concerned with the past four weeks (28 days) only. Please read each question carefully and answer all the questions.

Section 1 — Eating Habits & Restraint

On how many of the past 28 days...

1

Have you been deliberately trying to limit the amount of food you eat to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?

2

Have you gone for long periods of time (8 waking hours or more) without eating anything at all in order to influence your shape or weight?

3

Have you tried to exclude from your diet any foods that you like in order to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?

4

Have you tried to follow definite rules regarding your eating (for example, a calorie limit) in order to influence your shape or weight (whether or not you have succeeded)?

5

Have you had a definite desire to have an empty stomach with the aim of influencing your shape or weight?

6

Have you had a definite desire to have a totally flat stomach?

7

Has thinking about food, eating or calories made it very difficult to concentrate on things you are interested in (for example, working, following a conversation, or reading)?

8

Has thinking about shape or weight made it very difficult to concentrate on things you are interested in (for example, working, following a conversation, or reading)?

9

Have you had a definite fear of losing control over eating?

10

Have you had a definite fear that you might gain weight?

11

Have you felt fat?

12

Have you had a strong desire to lose weight?

Section 2 — Binge Eating & Compensatory Behaviors

Please enter the appropriate number for each question. It is fine to enter 0 if this has not happened.

13

Over the past 28 days, how many times have you eaten what other people would regard as an unusually large amount of food (given the circumstances)?

times

14

On how many of these times did you have a sense of having lost control over your eating (at the time you were eating)?(Out of the 0 times noted in question 13)

times

15

Over the past 28 days, on how many DAYS have such episodes of overeating occurred (i.e. you have eaten an unusually large amount of food and have had a sense of loss of control at the time)?

days

16

Over the past 28 days, how many times have you made yourself sick (vomit) as a means of controlling your shape or weight?

times

17

Over the past 28 days, how many times have you taken laxatives as a means of controlling your shape or weight?

times

18

Over the past 28 days, how many times have you exercised in a “driven” or “compulsive” way as a means of controlling your weight, shape or amount of fat, or to burn off calories?

times

Section 3 — Eating in Secret & Social Concern

Do not count episodes of binge eating for questions 19-21.

19

Over the past 28 days, on how many days have you eaten in secret (i.e., furtively)?

20

On what proportion of the times that you have eaten have you felt guilty (felt that you've done wrong) because of its effect on your shape or weight?

21

Over the past 28 days, how concerned have you been about other people seeing you eat?