Developing a measure of eating attitudes and behaviours in cystic fibrosis.

Background: Eating disorders or disturbed eating attitudes and behaviours (EABs) may contribute to poor nutritional status in Cystic Fibrosis (CF). Existing measures of disturbed EABs can have different meanings in this population and do not assess CF-related EABs. A self-report measure of EABs in CF was developed to highlight areas of eating disturbance.

The variability of country map knowledge in normal and aphasic subjects: evidence from two new category-specific screening tests.

Two new category-specific screening tests are described, tapping naming to confrontation and word comprehension at two different levels of frequency. Level I consists of 10 very high-frequency items from each of the categories of animals, manmade artefacts, colours, body parts and countries. Level II probes knowledge of 10 marginally lower frequency items from the categories of animals, man-made artefacts, fruits and vegetables, body parts and countries.