ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2019
Development and validation of the Premorbid Childhood Traits Questionnaire (PCT-Q) in eating disorders.
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- The Role of Emotion Regulation in Eating Disorders: A Network Meta-Analysis Approach.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Pooled it
- Eating Disorders and Parkinson's Disease-2: Genetic Epidemiology and Shared Genomics.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- Development and Initial Validation of the Pathological Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Scale for Children (POPS-C).Journal of personality disorders · 2026Article
- Eating Disorders and Parkinson's Disease - 1: Comorbidities, Neurobiology and Family History.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Early intervention in eating disorders: introducing the chronopathogram.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Review
- Inpatients with severe-enduring anorexia nervosa: Understanding the "enduringness" specifier.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeSome features of eating disorders (EDs) are often present in childhood before the onset of the ED. We developed a novel questionnaire to retrospectively capture such childhood traits.
methodsFocus groups were conducted at the University of California-San Diego, USA, and at the University of Turin, Italy. Three focus groups were conducted at each site, interviewing patients and parents to identify those traits that most commonly characterize childhood of patients with EDs. A preliminary version of the Premorbid Childhood Traits Questionnaire (PCT-Q) derived from these focus groups was then administered to 94 consecutive inpatients with an ED and to 286 healthy controls (HCs) at the Turin site. Also, 208 participants' parents were enrolled as well; in fact, the PCT-Q was developed with both a proband and an informant version.
resultsA 37-item final version of the PCT-Q was generated. Reliability analyses suggested acceptability for harm avoidance (HA), social phobia, alexithymia, interoceptive awareness (IA), and food obsessions. Inter-rater reliability ranged from fair to moderate. ED sufferers scored significantly higher than HCs on HA, social phobia, alexithymia, IA, and food obsessions.
conclusionsThese findings support the possibility that premorbid traits contribute to a risk to develop an ED in some individuals. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: III: case-control analytic study.
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