Reliability and validity of the Japanese translation of the Eating Disorders Quality of Life (ED-QOL) scale for Japanese healthy female university undergraduate students and patients with eating disorders.

Background: The Eating Disorder Quality of Life (ED-QOL) scale is a 25-item self-report measure that assesses health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of eating-disorder patients. Although the ED-QOL is one of the most widely used questionnaires in many countries, no prior research has addressed the psychometric properties of the Japanese translation of the ED-QOL. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess its reliability and validity.

Psychosocial Assessment of Candidates for Transplantation scale (PACT) and survival after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Recent findings suggest that patient pre-transplant psychosocial risk factors predict survival after hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) and importance of comprehensive psychosocial assessment during pre-transplant period is increasingly acknowledged. Psychosocial screening process, however, has not been standardized across transplant centers and its predictive value has not yet been confirmed. An observational cohort study was conducted to explore the relationships between psychosocial variables, assessed with the Psychosocial Assessment of Candidates for Transplantation (PACT) scale, and post-transplant overall survival (OS) of patients with hematologic malignancies who received allogeneic HSCT as treatment.

Longitudinal course of eating disorders after transsexual treatment: a report of two cases.

Background: Several reports have been published on patients with gender dysphoria and eating disorders. However, there have been few reports on the longitudinal course of eating disorders after gender reassignment surgery (GRS)/gender confirmation surgery (GCS).

Case Presentation: We report two Japanese cases of transsexual persons with eating disorders who underwent GRS/GCS, one male-to-female (MtF) and one female-to-male (FtM).

Development of the Japanese Version of the Psychosocial Assessment of Candidates for Transplantation in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.

Background: The Psychosocial Assessment of Candidates for Transplantation (PACT) is a validated instrument for evaluating psychosocial risk factors in transplant candidates.

Objectives: This study examined reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the PACT (J-PACT).

Methods: PACT is a clinician-rated scale consisting of an initial rating, 8 subscales, and a final rating.

A series of patients with purging type anorexia nervosa who do "tube vomiting".

Background: It is important for clinicians to assess their patients' purging behavior. Various methods of purging, such as self-induced vomiting are well-known. Because patients do not always report their purging behavior, knowing the clinical signs that indicate the behavior is useful.