Eating Disorder Items in Transdiagnostic Screening Tools for Child Mental Health: A Rapid Review

Katarina Prnjak, Laura Hart, Ellie Tsiamis, Simone Baillie, Lyza Norton, Phillippa Hay, Jamie-Lee Pennesi, Tracey Wade, Deborah Mitchison, Body Image and Eating Network, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Melbourne School of Population Health, The University of Melbourne, Translational Health Research Institute, School of Medicine, Western Sydney University, Mental Health Services, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Flinders University, Flinders University Institute for Mental Health and Wellbeing and Blackbird Initiative

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Published online on January 21, 2026

Abstract

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Ahead of Print.
Transdiagnostic screening tools (e.g., MINI-KID) are beneficial in detecting risk factors for a range of mental health problems in children; yet no research has explored how effective these tools are in detecting eating disorders (EDs). The aim of this ...