TY - JOUR
AU1 - Dakanalis, Antonios
AU2 - Colmegna, Fabrizia
AU3 - Riva, Giuseppe
AU4 - Clerici, Massimo
AB - INTRODUCTIONBinge‐eating disorder (BED), characterized by recurrent binge eating (BE) in the absence of extreme weight compensatory behaviors (e.g., purging) and associated with elevated psychiatric and medical co‐morbidity and psychosocial impairment (Hudson, Hiripi, Pope, & Kessler, ; Grilo, White, & Masheb, ), is a new formal eating disorder (ED) diagnosis in the DSM‐5 (American Psychiatric Association, ), previously in the appendix of the DSM‐IV (American Psychiatric Association, ) as a research criteria set for further study. Although some effective treatments (i.e., cognitive‐behavioral therapy, CBT) have been identified for BED, even in studies with the best outcomes, a substantial proportion of patients does not achieve BE abstinence, and the elucidation of factors accounting for differential treatment outcome is vital (Kass, Kolko, & Wilfley, ).In addition to changing the minimum average frequency and duration of BE episodes from 2 days per week over 6 months (DSM‐IV (American Psychiatric Association, ) stipulations) to once per week for 3 months, the DSM‐5 (American Psychiatric Association, ) added a new severity specifier, based on BE frequency, to address within‐group variability in severity and help clinicians to track patients' progress (Grilo, Ivezaj, & White, a; Grilo, Ivezaj, & White, b; Smink, van Hoeken, Oldehinkel, & Hoek, ). 
TI - Validity and utility of the DSM‐5 severity specifier for binge‐eating disorder
JF - International Journal of Eating Disorders
DO - 10.1002/eat.22696
DA - 2017-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/validity-and-utility-of-the-dsm-5-severity-specifier-for-binge-eating-b5VjNv9vpd
SP - 917
EP - 923
VL - 50
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -