2009/03/03 by Deborah L. Reas, Øyvind Rø, Hilde Kapstad +1
Medicine · Psychology · #Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes #Eating Disorders and Behaviors #Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
paper · doi:10.1002/eat.20653
openalex publication_date 2009/03/03 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the initial psychometric properties and to establish norms for the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA v. 3.0) among a nonclinical sample of young adult women. METHOD: The CIA is a brief, 16-item self-report measure designed to assess psychosocial impairment due to eating disorder features over the past 28 days. We administered the CIA and the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q v. 6.0) to 438 university women (mean age = 25 years). RESULTS: Participants' mean global CIA score was 6.4 (SD = 7.5; range 0-40). Acceptable levels of internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.94) and 1-week test-retest reliability were observed. Significant correlations were found between the CIA and the EDE-Q total and subscale scores (Spearman rhos = 0.58-0.79), indicating that greater levels of impairment were associated with higher levels of eating disorder psychopathology. DISCUSSION: Results demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties of the CIA among a sample of young adult women, suggesting the utility of the CIA to measure impairment due to eating disorder features in nonclinical samples.