ReviewJournal of eating disorders2020
Psychometric properties of instruments assessing exercise in patients with eating disorders: a systematic review.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Prevalence of Excessive Exercise in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Pooled it
- Psychosocial etiology of maladaptive exercise and its role in eating disorders: A systematic review.The International journal of eating disorders · 2021Pooled it
- Exercise addiction: A review and evaluation of current research and theory.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Review
- Reasons for exercise inventory: A validation of the Dutch version in a community sample and a sample of women with an eating disorder.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- More than a symptom: qualitative exploration of embodied control and restlessness in compulsive movement in eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Identification of Affective- and Social-Reinforcement Functions of Driven Exercise: Evidence From Three Samples.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Affective Trajectories of Binge Eating, Purging, and Exercise Among Sexual Minority Men.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The Arabic Version of Compulsive Exercise Test among Saudi Population; Translation and Validation.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Validation and measurement invariance of the Compulsive Exercise Test among Brazilian and American young adults.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- AgRP neurons coordinate the mitigation of activity-based anorexia.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
- Measuring exercise in eating disorder patients: a Delphi study to aggregate clinical and research knowledge.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Management of eating disorders for people with higher weight: clinical practice guideline.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundResearch has identified factors specific to exercise in eating disorder patients such as affect regulation and compulsivity. Existing measures of exercise behaviour which were not originally designed for eating disorder patients may not adequately assess these factors. The aim of this systematic review is to identify and assess the psychometric properties of all self-report measures of exercise designed to be used with eating disorder patients.
methodA systematic review was conducted following the PRISMA guidelines. MedLine, Scopus and PsycINFO were systematically searched. A total of 12 studies examining two measures, the Exercise and Eating Disorders and the Compulsive Exercise Test, met inclusion criteria.
resultsValidation studies showed promising results for both tests and established internal consistency, concurrent and convergent validity, and construct validity. The factor structure of the Compulsive Exercise Test was not confirmed in the majority of the studies included in this review, while there are only two studies conducting factor analysis on the Exercise and Eating Disorders.
conclusionThe two measures identified by this systematic review represent the current research on measures of compulsive exercise for eating disorder patients. Further research is needed to confirm a factor structure and validate both the Compulsive Exercise Test and the Exercise and Eating Disorders in more diverse clinical samples.
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