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SCOFF Questionnaire
Aka: SCOFF Questionnaire
- Indications: Eating Disorder Screening
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Questions (Mnemonic: SCOFF)
- Make yourself SICK when you feel uncomfortably full?
- Worry you have lost CONTROL over how much you eat?
- Recently lost more than 14 pounds within three months?
- ONE stone's worth of weight
- Believe you are FAT when others say you are too thin?
- Would you say that FOOD dominates your life?
- Interpretation
- Score one point for each question answered 'yes' above
- Two or more points suggests Eating Disorder
- Efficacy (based on small trial - requires confirmation)
- Sensitivity: 100%
- Specificity: 87.5% (12.5% False Positives)
- References
- Morgan (1999) BMJ 319:1467 [PubMed]