[Measuring the development of eating disorders in a group of patients with the Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI)]. / La mesure d'évolution dans un groupe de patients ayant des troubles de conduites alimantaires par le Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI).

The Eating Disorders Inventory (EDI I) has been applied to four groups of patients with Eating Disorders (ED): Anorexic Bulimic Subtype (AB N = 22), Anorexic Restrictive Subtype (AR N = 36); Bulimic (B N = 51) and Other Eating Disorders (OED N = 15), according to the DSM III-R criteria. We have also applied the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-40), the Beck Depression Inventory (13 items), the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale. During their hospital care, the patients have been treated by cognitive-behavioural therapy. The order or decreasing total scores in EDI at the admission is the B subtype, then the AR subtype, then the OED group. In total score, the B and AB improved more than the order groups, between their admission and a second assessment three months later. Body dissatisfaction, Drive for thinness and Interpersonnal distrust are the only subscales for which no group showed a statistical improvement after three months. The B group decreased more in the subscale, than the other groups, particularly in Interoceptive awareness, Ineffectiveness and bulimia.