Table 1 Items of the InsideOut Institute Screener

Relationship with food^a

1. How is your relationship with food?

(For example: is food and eating worry free, or is it full of worry and stress?)

Body & self-worth^a

2. Does your weight, body or shape make you feel bad about yourself?

(For example: the number on the scale, the shape of your body or a part of your body.)

Preoccupation with food or weight^a

3. Do you feel like food, weight or your body shape dominates your life?

(For example: experiencing constant thoughts about food, weight or your body.)

Anxiety and distress^b

4. Do you feel anxious or distressed when you are not in control of your food?

(For example: when others cook or prepare food for you or when eating out.)

Loss of control^c

5. Do you ever feel like you will not be able to stop eating or have lost control around food?

(For example: feeling that you have no control around food, that you binge eat or fear that you will binge eat.)

Compensatory behaviour^d

6. When you think you have eaten too much, do you do anything to make up for it?

(For example: skipping the next meal, going light on the next meal, working it off with exercise, purging via vomiting or taking laxatives, diuretics or diet pills.)