The BITE is a questionnaire which, as its name suggests, is designed to measure typical psychological and behavioural aspects of bulimia and related problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The original paper about the measure is Henderson, M., & Freeman, C. P. L. (1987). A self-rating scale for Bulimia, the \u2018BITE\u2019. British Journal of Psychiatry<\/em>, 150<\/em>(1), 18\u201324. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1192\/bjp.150.1.18<\/a>. The measure is unusual in having two rather separate scales: a severity scale based on the frequency of behaviours and a symptom scale which is more a mix of behavioural and psychological items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Chapter 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The BITE is a questionnaire which, as its name suggests, is designed to measure typical psychological and behavioural aspects of bulimia and related problems. Details The original paper about the measure is Henderson, M., & Freeman, C. P. L. (1987). A self-rating scale for Bulimia, the \u2018BITE\u2019. British Journal of Psychiatry, 150(1), 18\u201324. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1192\/bjp.150.1.18. The … Continue reading Bulimia Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[18],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"knowledge_base":[],"class_list":["post-2099","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-om-book"],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":89,"total_views":"2012","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"chris","author_nicename":"chris","author_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/author\/chris\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"All OM book glossary entries","term_url":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/glossary\/non-knowledgebase\/om-book\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2120,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2099\/revisions\/2120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2099"},{"taxonomy":"knowledge_base","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psyctc.org\/psyctc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/knowledge_base?post=2099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Chapters<\/h4>\n\n\n\n