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Reliability Testing of a Children's Version of the Eating Attitude Test

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To study eating disorders in children, a measurement of children's eating attitudes must be available. Adolescents and adults are commonly surveyed with the Eating Attitude Test (EAT), but it is incomprehensible to children. A children's version of the EAT (ChEAT) was designed and tested on 318 children aged 8 through 13 years. Test-retest and internal reliability coefficients of the ChEAT were comparable to published studies with adults. Almost 7% of the children scored within the anorectic range on the ChEAT, closely matching the percentage reported for adolescents and adults on the EAT.

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Portions of this paper were presented at poster sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Washington, D. C, October 1987, at the International Conference on Eating Disorders in NYC, April 1988, and at the American Psychiatric Association in Montreal, May 1988.

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