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