Concerns about eating
If you have concerns about a patient during consultation, you could use these questionnaires to further explore eating disorder presentation – if these are completed please send along with referral
- SCOFF questionnaire
The SCOFF questionnaire — two or more positive answers to the following questions are suggestive of anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa.
- ‘Do you ever make yourself sick because you feel uncomfortably full?’
- ‘Do you worry that you have lost control over how much you eat?’
- ‘Have you recently lost more than one stone in a 3-month period?’
- ‘Do you believe yourself to be fat when others say you are too thin?’
- ‘Would you say that food dominates your life?’
Page last reviewed: 29 April, 2025