ArticleBMC research notes2021
Establishment of a Japanese version of the Sick, Control, One Stone, Fat, and Food (SCOFF) questionnaire for screening eating disorders in university students.
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- The use and misuse of the SCOFF screening measure over two decades: a systematic literature review.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Pooled it
- Dependence-related screening positivity among regular stimulant-laxative users with chronic constipation: a multicenter prospective observational study.Journal of gastroenterology · 2026Observational
- Gastrointestinal Symptom-Specific Anxiety Predicts Positive SCOFF Screens in Adults With Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder and May Overestimate Eating Disorder Risk.Neurogastroenterology and motility · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic child mental health trajectories in Japan: protocol for a nationwide web‑based open cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Adolescent Eating Disorder Risk in a Bilingual Region: Clinical Prevalence, Screening Challenges and Treatment Gap in South Tyrol, Italy.Nutrients · 2025Observational
- Knowledge of the risks associated with being underweight and body shape differences among young Japanese women: a cross-sectional study.BioPsychoSocial medicine · 2025Article
- Comparison of young Japanese underweight women with eating disorder tendencies and constitutional thinness: A cross-sectional study.Preventive medicine reports · 2025Article
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objectiveThis study aimed to validate the Sick, Control, One stone, Fat, and Food (SCOFF) questionnaire in relation to the Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) and to examine the appropriateness of a question concerning weight loss among Japanese university students. The psychometric properties of the two Japanese versions were determined among 649 Japanese college students. The original version (SCOFF-O) employed the original item 3, whereas the revised version (SCOFF-2.5) modified the item to "Have you recently lost more than 2.5 kg within three months?" Validity was tested relative to EDE-Q.
resultsThe test-retest reliabilities of SCOFF-O and SCOFF-2.5 were 0.52 and 0.57, while the correlations of SCOFF-O and SCOFF-2.5 with EDE-Q were r = 0.53 and r = 0.56. The sensitivity and specificity of SCOFF-O were 65.2 and 89.7, and those of SCOFF-2.5 were 69.5 and 86.5, respectively. There were significant correlations between the question concerning losing 2.5 kg and the EDE-Q subscales. The Japanese version of SCOFF-2.5 is an appropriate tool for the early screening of eating disorders among Japanese university students.
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