Publications by authors named "Dara Bellace"
Objective: The YBC-EDS is a semistructured interview assessing core preoccupations and rituals related to eating disorders.
Method: We developed and conducted an examination of the reliability and validity of a self-report questionnaire (SRQ) version of the YBC-EDS. Convergent validity of YBC-EDS-SRQ with the YBC-EDS was examined for 112 eating disordered patients.
Objective: To examine childhood perfectionism in anorexia nervosa (AN) restricting (RAN), purging (PAN), and binge eating with or without purging (BAN) subtypes.
Method: The EATATE, a retrospective assessment of childhood perfectionism, and the eating disorder inventory (EDI-2) were administered to 728 AN participants.
Results: EATATE responses revealed general childhood perfectionism, 22.
Article Synopsis
- The study focused on how meal replacement adherence affects outcomes in a weight loss program for 60 women aged 29-62 with varying BMIs.
- Participants were split into control and experimental groups to assess the impact of meal replacements on weight loss maintenance, measuring factors like weight, depression, and eating behaviors at four points during the study.
- Findings indicated initial differences in weight and activity levels, while changes in cognitive and eating behaviors developed over time, suggesting a need for more research to identify baseline factors linked to effective meal replacement use.
This paper describes the psychometric evaluation of a new measure called the Power of Food Scale (PFS). The PFS assesses the psychological impact of living in food-abundant environments. It measures appetite for, rather than consumption of, palatable foods, at three levels of food proximity (food available, food present, and food tasted).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe freshman year of college is a period of heightened risk for weight gain. This study examined measures of restrained eating, disinhibition, and emotional eating as predictors of weight gain during the freshman year. Using Lowe's multi-factorial model of dieting, it also examined three different types of dieting as predictors of weight gain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Although binge eating disorder is a common and distressing concomitant of obesity, it has not yet been established whether affected individuals presenting to behavioral weight control programs should receive specialized treatments to supplement standard treatment. This study was designed to examine the added benefit of two adjunctive interventions, individual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and fluoxetine, offered in the context of group behavioral weight control treatment.
Research Methods And Procedures: One hundred sixteen overweight/obese women and men with binge eating disorder were all assigned to receive a 16-session group behavioral weight control treatment over 20 weeks.