A self-report questionnaire for bulimic symptoms was administered to
three different groups of community residents and to patients in a
hospital's weight disorders unit and its dietetics department. The
prevalence of DSM-III bulimia was 12.7% among female community residents,
while the prevalence of draft DSM-III-R bulimia was 1.7%. The
questionnaire, scored to reflect DSM-III, categorized as bulimic large
numbers of patients who were not given that diagnosis by clinicians. The
draft DSM-III-R criteria seemed more closely aligned to clinical
experience.
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