Adaptation and Evaluation of the Clinical Impairment Assessment to Assess Disordered Eating Related Distress in an Adolescent Female Ethnic Fijian Population

Adaptation and Evaluation of the Clinical Impairment Assessment to Assess Disordered Eating Related Distress in an Adolescent Female Ethnic Fijian Population

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Adaptation and Evaluation of the Clinical Impairment Assessment to Assess Disordered Eating Related Distress in an Adolescent Female Ethnic Fijian Population

dc.contributor.author	Bainivualiku, Asenaca
dc.contributor.author	Richards, Lauren
dc.contributor.author	Navara, Kesaia
dc.contributor.author	Roberts, Andrea L
dc.contributor.author	Striegel-Moore, Ruth H
dc.contributor.author	Becker, Anne Edith
dc.contributor.author	Thomas, Jennifer Joanne
dc.contributor.author	Gilman, Stephen Edward
dc.date.accessioned	2012-01-22T01:38:12Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	Becker, Anne E., Jennifer J. Thomas, Asenaca Bainivualiku, Lauren Richards, Kesaia Navara, Andrea L. Roberts, Stephen E. Gilman, and Ruth H. Striegel-Moore. 2010. Adaptation and evaluation of the clinical impairment assessment to assess disordered eating related distress in an adolescent female ethnic Fijian population. International Journal of Eating Disorders 43(2): 179-186.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0276-3478	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:8000920
dc.description.abstract	Objective: Measurement of disease-related impairment and distress is central to diagnostic, therapeutic, and health policy considerations for eating disorders across diverse populations. This study evaluates psychometric properties of a translated and adapted version of the Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA) in an ethnic Fijian population. Method: The adapted CIA was administered to ethnic Fijian adolescent schoolgirls (N = 215). We calculated Cronbach's α to assess the internal consistency, examined the association between indicators of eating disorder symptom severity and the CIA to assess construct and criterion validity, and compared the strength of relation between the CIA and measures of disordered eating versus with measures of generalized distress. Results: The Fijian version of the CIA is feasible to administer as an investigator-based interview. It has excellent internal consistency (α = 0.93). Both construct and criterion validity were supported by the data, and regression models indicated that the CIA predicts eating disorder severity, even when controlling for generalized distress and psychopathology. Discussion: The adapted CIA has excellent psychometric properties in this Fijian study population. Findings suggest that the CIA can be successfully adapted for use in a non-Western study population and that at least some associated distress and impairment transcends cultural differences.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	John Wiley and Sons	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	doi:10.1002/eat.20665	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2896728/pdf/	en_US
dash.license	LAA
dc.subject	eating disorder	en_US
dc.subject	clinical impairment assessment	en_US
dc.subject	distress	en_US
dc.subject	crosscultural	en_US
dc.subject	Fiji	en_US
dc.title	Adaptation and Evaluation of the Clinical Impairment Assessment to Assess Disordered Eating Related Distress in an Adolescent Female Ethnic Fijian Population	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Version of Record	en_US
dc.relation.journal	International Journal of Eating Disorders	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Becker, Anne Edith
dc.date.available	2012-01-22T01:38:12Z
dash.affiliation.other	HMS^Global Health and Social Medicine	en_US
dash.affiliation.other	HMS^Psychiatry-Massachusetts General Hospital	en_US
dash.affiliation.other	HMS^M.D. Ph.D. Program	en_US
dash.affiliation.other	SPH^Society Human Development and Health	en_US