Top Research Papers on Eating Disorders

Fear of food, weight gain, and judgment are the most frequently endorsed fears for individuals with EDs and few differences in fears based on ED diagnosis are found, suggesting ED fears are heterogenous.

The high prevalence of EDs and disordered eating in the military points toward the importance of identification, treatment, and prevention, and policy change is necessary to protect servicemembers.

Overall, the literature suggests competitive cycling is a sport with a high prevalence of disordered eating and/or eating disorders and aSport with unique risk factors that contribute to this and more research is needed.

The diagnosis, medical assessment, and treatment of the most common eating disorders are reviewed, with a focus on binge eating and bulimia.

Understanding the spectrum of disordered eating in pediatric patients with obesity allows providers to tailor treatments, discuss food and physical activity differently, and know when to refer patients to eating-disorder-specific providers for continued treatment.

Cultural gender roles have been recognized as significant in the cause and expression of disordered eating in women's perceptions of thinness as the feminine ideal.

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Body weight appears to be an important concern for patients with CF, with many patients struggling to lose weight and research appears conflicting on whether it is higher among individuals with a CF diagnosis or not, and about the prevalence of EDs.

Sufferers of eating disorders often hold false beliefs about their own body size. Such beliefs appear to violate norms of epistemic rationality, being neither grounded by nor responsive to appropriate forms of evidence. Contrary to appearances, I defend the rationality of these beliefs. I argue that they are in fact grounded in and reinforced by appropriate evidence, emanating from proprioceptive misperception of bodily boundaries. This argument has farreaching implications for the explanation and treatment of eating disorders, as well as debates over the relationship between rationality and h...

Abstract A relevant comorbidity of bipolar disorder (BD) is eating disorders (EDs). Crossed vulnerability factors as eating disorder–specific symptoms (EDSSs) may trigger the onset of both disorders in either direction. The Structured Inventory for Anorexic and Bulimic Eating Disorders for Self-Report was used to examine the occurrence of EDs in euthymic/subsyndromal individuals with BD (n = 86) and healthy controls (n = 86) matched for age and sex. Furthermore, we explored EDSSs with the subscales “general psychopathology and social integration,” “bulimic symptoms,” “body image and slimness i...

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Being in the age range 15–18 years, being female, and being an athlete in a high-risk sport, including aesthetics, weight class, or endurance sports, were identified as risk factors as well as athletes’ mental association with weight loss and success, and athletes‘ perceived social pressure on eating and on body shape.

The internal structure of EDE-Q is low, while construct validity is high, making EDE -Q useful as an instrument to identify individuals with eating disorder symptoms, including recreational, and elite athletes.

It is suggested that purging may have particular relevance in estimating suicide risk in patients with an eating disorder, in longitudinal analyses from admission to discharge.

Results lend weight to the supposition that NES lies on a continuum of ED psychopathologies, and that NES-NI-only appears to be a separate entity from NES+BE and BE-only in terms of its psychopathology.

The current study documents the interrater reliability and internal consistency of the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) interview when administered to adults with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition) (DSM‐5)‐defined BED.

Bidirectional increases in risk of comorbidity for those with both eating disorder diagnoses and psychiatric disorder diagnoses are identified, which indicate different patterns of comorebidity between eating disorders.

Over the COVID-19 pandemic, youth mental health was severely compromised. Increased prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents aged 12 to 17 was over-represented by eating disorders (50%) compared to depression (36%) and anxiety (31%). It is predicted that sustained effects of the pandemic will continue to be experienced by youth. An urgent investment in early intervention for eating disorders in youth is required.

This study deals with binge-eating (BE) that is a deeper negative psychological problem and a severe life-threatening eating disorder, which is characterized by eating large quantities of food within a short period of time; with a feeling of a loss of control during the eating. Binge-eating is seen common among both genders of obese people; and also common among students and irrespective of smokers and non-smokers. A person of binge-eating faces difficulties in working life, social life, and relationships. S/he often feels guilty, also disgusted and embarrassed after eating. Actually binge-eat...

Elite athletes are at risk for the spectrum of disordered eating, and all should be considered for primary prevention and screening, to better inform interventions.

The comorbidities of eating disorders with those metabolic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome are reviewed and discussed.

NPs in primary care with awareness of the diagnostic criteria for BED and knowledge of its assessment and treatment options can coordinate care for patients experiencing this health challenge.

The findings of this retrospective study suggest that seizure development may be a direct and indirect complication associated with EDs.

Findings identify eating disorder symptoms that predict treatment enrollment after diagnostic assessment and recommendation to begin treatment and should be assessed for to address potential treatment barriers.

Evidence-based prevention programs for EDs and for depression and anxiety, as well as parent-based Prevention informed by FBT, provide a springboard for addressing the gap between theory and research about families that are genetically vulnerable for eating disorders versus the complete lack of prevention programming for such families that have an older child or adolescent at high risk.

The causes and the mechanism underlying menstrual disorders are summarized to provide a better understanding of the correlation between the reproductive system and the mechanisms that regulate food intake and eating habits and to help put more accurate assessments of patients to prevent potentially fatal complications.

This chapter draws on sport research to highlight the pressure and abuse athletes face as they attempt to achieve the culturally accepted athletic body shape (e.g. fatless/lean) which is perceived to enhance performance output. Research has revealed that insiders of sporting organisations (e.g. coaches/team managers/athletes) implement various bodily practices (e.g. daily weigh-ins, skin fold tests, long runs, abuse of prescription drugs) in an attempt to achieve the fatless and lean athlete body. A case is made suggesting that athletes developing eating disorders and engaging with disordered ...

More rigorous tools for family practice physicians, nurses, and coaches to use when working with at-risk adolescent athletes are needed to identify DE behaviors and healthcare and school professionals need to be educated and trained to detect DE and the components of the female athlete triad.

It is possible to overcome eating disorders through a plethora of resources, including workshops offering healthy coping techniques, counseling, support groups, and treatment centers which provide personalized care.

This work adds to the growing literature using intensive longitudinal data to model ED pathology and implicates fear of weight gain, thinking about dieting, and feelings of guilt as symptoms needing further treatment development work.

There was a trend of Anorexia Nervosa and OSFED presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland and the need for future public health and service provision funding to be allocated for mental health services during periods of international crisis is added.

The overall prevalence rate of disordered eating appeared to be slightly higher than the global rates of prevalence, and a significant number of the suspected/detected cases ofdisordered eating appear to fulfill the criteria for EDNOS.

Abstract. In this article we review research on eating disorders with the Rorschach. In this field there are two main lines of research involving two specific methodologies: the Comprehensive System and the French school. We present the main results of the different studies separately and then comment on some similarities and differences in the findings. We find that the results of these studies are complementary on certain aspects of functioning found in anorexia nervosa as compared with other categories of eating disorders. Both sets of studies underline the self-centeredness of anorexic pat...

OBJECTIVE Interpersonal problems have been identified as a plausible mechanism underlying the onset and maintenance of eating disorders. The Interpersonal Relationships in Eating Disorders (IR-ED) scale is the first eating disorders-specific measure of interpersonal problems, which was developed in a nonclinical sample. The aims of the current study were to (a) confirm the factor structure of the IR-ED within a large clinical sample, (b) investigate measurement invariance of the IR-ED across nonclinical and clinical samples, (c) examine the convergent validity of the IR-ED using a generic meas...

Do I weigh myself often and find I am obsessed with the number on the scale? Do I exercise just to burn calories and not for health and enjoyment? Do I ever feel out of control when eating? Do my eating patterns include extreme dieting, preferences for certain foods, withdrawn or ritualized behavior at mealtime or secretive bingeing? Have weight loss, dieting, and or control of food become one of my major concerns? Do I feel ashamed, disgusted or guilty after eating? Do I constantly worry about the weight, shape or size of my body? Do I feel like my identity and value is based on how I ...

Signs of common eating disorders that may present in practice are provided to draw attention to potential difficulties when orthodontic treatment is required and to make recommendations on how to judiciously manage potential problems.

The most common symptom reported by youngsters with eating disorders was a decrease in appetite, and parents said it hurt just somewhat to have to care for an overweight child all the time.

ME improved anthropometric data, episodes of binge eating, body image dissatisfaction, eating habits, and quality of life in participants with obesity and BED in the short-term, but an extension of the project will be necessary to analyze the impact of the intervention in the long-term.

It appears children and adolescents and individuals with a diagnosed eating disorder may present vulnerable groups to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of stress in the development and maintenance of eating disorders may have been intensified to cope with the uncertainty of the pandemic.

The biological mechanisms underpinning symptoms evolution and course of illness will first be described, follows by a discussion on integrating the research evidence in fear and feeding into patient care.

There is no evidence for a cause-effect relationship between DGBI and ED, and their common symptomatology requires correct identification and a tailored therapy of each disorder.

The epidemiology of eating disorders and muscle dysmorphia in boys and men; specific groups of men at increased risk for eating disorders; sociocultural, psychological, and biological vulnerability factors; and male-specific assessment measures are reviewed.

Compared with those who self-reported having experienced less binge eating, those who regularly engaged in binge eating appeared to have significantly higher levels of SAA and four aspects of the psychopathology of DE, including weight, shape and eating concern as well as restraint.

Grade B evidence exists to support the idea that EDs and/or DE are a risk factor for a specific type of injury (BSI) in female athletes only.

This article argues for exploring the role of diversity in ED treatment settings and outcomes, for pursuing diversity-oriented research pro-actively rather than as a reaction to issues of under-representation, and for integrating diversity across different areas of medical education and trainings in psychotherapy.

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The only statistically significant finding of this study was that sorority and nonsorority subjects varied in the sources of societal pressures they identified, and sorority women more often identified other women or themselves as the main sources of pressure to be thin and beautiful.

It is possible to overcome eating disorders through a plethora of resources, including workshops offering healthy coping techniques, counseling, support groups, and treatment centers which provide personalized care.

OBJECTIVE Parental eating disorders are associated with disordered eating behaviors and psychopathology in their children, but it is not known whether parent treatment for binge-eating disorder (BED) is associated with changes in child disordered eating behaviors and weight. Benefits or the "ripple" effect of treatment on untreated family members has been described in the obesity literature but not for BED. METHOD Participants evaluated for two randomized clinical trials for BED were screened for whether they had children. 76 parents completed baseline assessments about a school-aged child; ...

The results of this study may be useful for educators in designing higher education that supports future nutrition professionals in the achievement of healthy relationships with food and body image.