Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire
EDE-Q on Lirena is the Fairburn and Beglin 2008 6.0 self-report questionnaire. This page is for clinics. It is not a medical-risk tool and not a public test.
Overview
What is the EDE-Q?
The Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire asks 28 questions about the past 28 days: restraint, eating concern, shape concern, weight concern, and six behaviour counts. It is more detailed than SCOFF and is not the EDE interview.
Development and clinical use
Fairburn and Beglin derived EDE-Q from the investigator-based EDE interview. This catalogue entry is version 6.0 (2008).
- Items
- 28 questions
- Mode
- Patient self-report
- Recall
- Past 28 days
- Global score
- 0.00-6.00
- Clinical role
- Symptom measurement
- Diagnosis
- Not established by score
Administration
A focused client experience
The person completes EDE-Q 6.0 in the assessment portal. Medical risk, weight, height, and menses are separate clinic processes and are not part of these 28 items.
- One question at a time with visible progress
- Large keyboard-operable response choices
- Previous, next, and answer-review steps
- Clear confirmation that results go to the clinic
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)?
Report showcase
Designed to make evidence easy to review
The downloadable synthetic example illustrates report layout using invented response patterns, without patient data or instrument questions.
- Named instrument, version, and provenance
- Item-level response pattern without source wording
- Methodology, references, and clinical boundary
- Responsible clinician review rather than automated conclusions
Clinician review required
Methodology
Understand the measure and its scoring conventions
Restraint, Eating Concern, Shape Concern, and Weight Concern are means of their rated items, each 0.00-6.00, when more than half of that subscale is rated. The global score is the mean of the four subscale scores. Item 8 is in both Shape Concern and Weight Concern. Items 13-18 are behaviour counts and are not scored. No cutoff is applied.
References
- EDE-Q 6.0Fairburn CG, Beglin SJ. Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire 6.0. Fairburn and Beglin, 2008.
- Subscale scoring noteFairburn CG. Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders. New York: Guilford Press, 2008. EDE-Q subscale item numbers as reproduced by CORC.
- EDE-Q overviewFairburn CG, Beglin SJ. Assessment of eating disorders: interview or self-report questionnaire? Int J Eat Disord. 1994;16(4):363-370.
Questions
What clinics ask before they evaluate the EDE-Q
These answers stay inside educational catalogue scope. They do not replace official manuals or clinician judgement.
Which EDE-Q version is this?
EDE-Q 6.0 (Fairburn and Beglin, 2008), 28 items over the past 28 days.
Is EDE-Q the same as the EDE interview?
No. EDE-Q is the questionnaire. The interview is a different instrument.
Does EDE-Q assess medical risk?
No. Medical assessment is a separate clinical process. Weight, height, and menses are not stored with these 28 items.
Does a score diagnose an eating disorder?
No. The four subscale means and the global mean have no cutoff.