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A Computer-Based Platform for Aiding Clinicians in Eating Disorder Analysis and Diagnosis
Published on: May 10, 2022
Testing the validity of eating disorder diagnoses
Stephen A Wonderlich1, Ross D Crosby, James E Mitchell
1Department of Clinical Neuroscience, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Neuropsychiatric Research Institute, Grand Fork, North Dakota 58102, USA. stephenw@medicine.nodak.edu
Objective:
This paper overviews the issue of validity testing for eating disorder diagnoses.
Method:
A variety of different approaches to validity testing are reviewed, with an emphasis on clinically oriented validity testing for the DSM-V.
Results:
Validators of eating disorder diagnoses are likely to vary in terms of their scientific and clinical utility. Given that the DSM-V is a clinical document, validators which provide predictive clinical information will be most useful.
Conclusion:
Clinicians and researchers alike may differ in their approach to validating eating disorder diagnoses depending on the purpose of the validation.
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