The ED-SCT total score was the number of sentence stems to which a positive completion was made.
We prove that a necessary and sufficient condition for a given partially positive matrix to have a positive completion is that a certain Schur product map defined on a certain subspace of matrices is a positive map.
The points included in the check list were: a brief description of the importance of oral health and the objectives of the OHE session, a full coverage of the OHE contents in a sequential manner, proper use of posters, the use of layman language, ensuring active participation and appreciation of a positive behavior, timely completion of the session allowing time for questioning.
Across both studies, ED-concerned individuals provided a higher number of positive completions on the newly devised ED-SCT, a task assessing the endorsement of dysfunctional attitudes about eating, weight and shape control.
"These measures will be conditional upon full implementation of the measures to be agreed in a possible new programme and will be considered after the first positive completion of a review".
We hypothesised that ED-symptomatology would be significantly correlated with and predict levels of rumination, beliefs about rumination, experiential avoidance, and the number of positive completions on the ED-SCT.
The significant correlations between the ED-SCT and the EDBQ-subscales support the view that the number of positive completions is likely to reflect the extent to which concepts of self and those relating to eating, weight, and shape are inter-related, consistent with the presence of dysfunctional schemas in ED which are likely to have cognitive, emotional and behavioural consequences.
The number of positive completions on the ED-SCT was significantly correlated with EDBQ-subscales: acceptance by others, r = .78, p < .001, self-acceptance, r = .80, p < .001, and control over eating, r = .72, p < .001.001
As expected, this analysis revealed significant correlations between the number of positive completions on the ED-SCT and all EDBQ-subscales: acceptance by others (r = .52, p < .001), self-acceptance (r = .49, p < .001), and control over eating (r = .42, p < .001).001
In line with hypotheses, there were significant correlations between EDE-Q scores and all outcome variables: rumination (r = .34, p < .001), beliefs about rumination (r = .31; p < .001), experiential avoidance (r = .38, p < .001), and the number of positive completions on the ED-SCT (r = .47, p < .001).001
