Body dysmorphic disorder assessment in general population and in aesthetics medicine patients with the BDDE-Q

This article presents an assessment instrument to measure body image and body image disorder symptoms, the self-report version of the Body Dysmorphic Disorder Examination (BDDE-Q) by Reiter and Rosen (2000). The goal of this research was to validate this questionnaire in a Spanish sample. Different psychometric properties such as factorial analysis, test-retest reliability, and t-test comparison of means of different variables were obtained. Finally, the dissatisfaction level in general and with every body part in men and women were also analyzed.