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Identifying fundamental criteria for eating disorder recovery: a systematic review and qualitative meta-analysis

Outcome studies for eating disorders regularly measure pathology change or remission as the only outcome. Researchers, patients and recovered individuals highlight the importance of using additional criteria f...

Authors: Jan Alexander de Vos, Andrea LaMarre, Mirjam Radstaak, Charlotte Ariane Bijkerk, Ernst T. Bohlmeijer and Gerben J. Westerhof

Erratum to: Evaluation of a multiprofessional, nonsurgical obesity treatment program: which parameters indicated life style changes and weight loss?

Authors: Irena Pjanic, Roland Müller, Markus Laimer, Niels Hagenbuch, Kurt Laederach and Zeno Stanga

Book review: beyond a shadow of a diet

Authors: Jessica Bailes

Eating behaviour disorders among adolescents in a middle school in Dongfanghong, China

Disordered eating behaviours (DEB) are significant public health challenges among adolescents. DEB are prevalent among Chinese young people and replication epidemiological studies in DEB are needed due to ongo...

Authors: Tingting Feng and Dawit Shawel Abebe

Perceptions of eating disorder diagnoses and body image issues in four male cases in Singapore

Despite the increasing number of patients presenting for treatment, little is still known about male eating disorders cases. The current study presents four male eating disorder cases presented to our speciali...

Authors: Evelyn Boon, Kelly Ann Zainal and Stephen W. Touyz

An exploratory study of creativity and eating disorders

We examined whether cognitive rigidity associated with having an eating disorder generalized to creativity.

Authors: Bruce D. Burns, Yichelle Zhang, Mareike Wieth and Stephen Touyz

The role of personality in body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating: discrepancies between men and women

Body image and disordered eating research has focused mostly on the female experience. The present study examined gender differences in the relationship between personality, disordered eating, and body image d...

Authors: L. P. MacNeill, L. A. Best and L. L. Davis

Sport practice, physical structure, and body image among university students

The aim of this study was to estimate body image perception in undergraduate students, and to investigate its associations with weight status, abdominal obesity, muscularity, gender and sport.

Authors: Stefania Toselli and Federico Spiga

A retrospective analysis of biochemical and haematological parameters in patients with eating disorders

The objective of the study was to determine whether levels of biochemical and haematological parameters in patients with eating disorders (EDs) varied from the general population. Whilst dietary restrictions c...

Authors: Leanne J. Barron, Robert F. Barron, Jeremy C. S. Johnson, Ingrid Wagner, Cameron J. B. Ward, Shannon R. B. Ward, Faye M. Barron and Warren K. Ward

A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media

On social media, images such as thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration, are shared to inspire certain body ideals. Previous research has demonstrated that exposure to these groups of content is associa...

Authors: Catherine Victoria Talbot, Jeffrey Gavin, Tommy van Steen and Yvette Morey

Food avoidance and restriction in adults: a cross-sectional pilot study comparing patients from an immunology clinic to a general practice

With the introduction of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual – fifth edition, there is an increased need to understand the prevalence and pattern of food ...

Authors: Michael Fitzgerald and Brad Frankum

Themes arising in clinical consultation for therapists implementing family-based treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa: a qualitative study

Our study aims to explore and describe themes arising in sessions of clinical consultation with therapists implementing Family-Based Treatment (FBT) for adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). There is current...

Authors: J. Couturier, J. Lock, M. Kimber, G. McVey, M. Barwick, A. Niccols, C. Webb, S. Findlay and T. Woodford

Predicting intolerance of uncertainty in individuals with eating disorder symptoms

Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) is recognized for its contribution to various psychopathologies, in particular anxiety and depression. Studies highlight the relevance of IU for Eating Disorders (EDs) however, ...

Authors: Lot C. Sternheim, Martin Fisher, Amy Harrison and Rosamond Watling

The stigma of clean dieting and orthorexia nervosa

Although the stigma of eating disorders such as anorexia has been well established, little is known about the social consequences of “clean dieting” and orthorexia nervosa. In two studies, we examined the soci...

Authors: Suzanne M. Nevin and Lenny R. Vartanian

The coexistence of psychiatric and gastrointestinal problems in children with restrictive eating in a nationwide Swedish twin study

Restrictive eating problems are rare in children but overrepresented in those with neurodevelopmental problems. Comorbidities decrease wellbeing in affected individuals but research in the area is relatively s...

Authors: Jakob Täljemark, Maria Råstam, Paul Lichtenstein, Henrik Anckarsäter and Nóra Kerekes

HAPIFED: a Healthy APproach to weIght management and Food in Eating Disorders: a case series and manual development

There is a high prevalence of overweight or obesity in people with eating disorders. However, therapies for eating disorders, namely binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa, do not address weight management....

Authors: Felipe Q. da Luz, Jessica Swinbourne, Amanda Sainsbury, Stephen Touyz, Marly Palavras, Angelica Claudino and Phillipa Hay

Comparative efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for the acute treatment of adult outpatients with anorexia nervosa: study protocol for the systematic review and network meta-analysis of individual data

Outpatient treatment studies of anorexia nervosa (AN) are notoriously hard to conduct given the ambivalence of the patient group and high drop-out rates. It is therefore not surprising that previous meta-analy...

Authors: Tracey D. Wade, Janet Treasure, Ulrike Schmidt, Christopher G. Fairburn, Susan Byrne, Stephan Zipfel and Andrea Cipriani

Relational containment: exploring the effect of family-based treatment for anorexia on familial relationships

The aim of this research was to investigate the process of familial relationship change for adolescents with anorexia nervosa and their parents, who participated in Family-Based Treatment (FBT).

Authors: Andrew Wallis, Paul Rhodes, Lisa Dawson, Jane Miskovic-Wheatley, Sloane Madden and Stephen Touyz

Is the neglect of exercise in anorexia nervosa research a case of “running out” of ideas or do we need to take a “LEAP” of faith into the future?

Authors: Stephen Touyz, Phillipa Hay and Melissa Noetel

Letter to the editor: health professionals’ attitudes toward individuals with eating disorders: who do we think they are?

Health professionals are not immune to stigmatizing attitudes and stereotypes found in society-at-large. Along with patients and their loved ones, treatment providers are important stakeholders – and gatekeepe...

Authors: Deborah Lynn Reas, Kjersti Solhaug Gulliksen, Johanna Levallius and Rasmus Isomaa

The 14^th century religious women Margery Kempe and Catherine of Siena can still teach us lessons about eating disorders today

Women today more commonly suffer the morbidity and mortality of eating disorders. Looking through the dual prisms of historical accounts and modern theory the authors examined the meaning of eating disturbance...

Authors: Isabella Sukkar, Madeleine Gagan and Warren Kealy-Bateman

Burden and health-related quality of life of eating disorders, including Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), in the Australian population

Little is known about the epidemiology and health related quality of life (HRQoL) of the new DSM-5 diagnoses, Binge Eating Disorder (BED) and Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in the Australian...

Authors: Phillipa Hay, Deborah Mitchison, Abraham Ernesto Lopez Collado, David Alejandro González-Chica, Nigel Stocks and Stephen Touyz

What happens after treatment? A systematic review of relapse, remission, and recovery in anorexia nervosa

Relapse after treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN) is a significant clinical problem. Given the level of chronicity, morbidity, and mortality experienced by this population, it is imperative to understand the d...

Authors: Sahib S. Khalsa, Larissa C. Portnoff, Danyale McCurdy-McKinnon and Jamie D. Feusner

Factor analysis of the adolescent version of the Eating Disorders Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q): results from Swedish general population and clinical samples

Although the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) is perhaps the single most widely used self-report measure of eating disorder (ED) symptoms, important questions remain about its validity and app...

Authors: Emma Forsén Mantilla, Andreas Birgegård and David Clinton

Evaluation of a multiprofessional, nonsurgical obesity treatment program: which parameters indicated life style changes and weight loss?

According to the current evidence, behavior modifications are an effective part of a non-surgical multiprofessional obesity treatment program (MOTP). The purpose of the present study was to report changes in w...

Authors: Irena Pjanic, Roland Müller, Markus Laimer, Niels Hagenbuch, Kurt Laederach and Zeno Stanga

Emaciated mannequins: a study of mannequin body size in high street fashion stores

There is concern that the body size of fashion store mannequins are too thin and promote unrealistic body ideals. To date there has been no systematic examination of the size of high street fashion store manne...

Authors: Eric Robinson and Paul Aveyard

A systematic review and narrative synthesis of interventions for uncomplicated obesity: weight loss, well-being and impact on eating disorders

Most weight loss research focuses on weight as the primary outcome, often to the exclusion of other physiological or psychological measures. This study aims to provide a holistic evaluation of the effects from...

Authors: Tina Peckmezian and Phillipa Hay

What’s that you’re eating? Social comparison and eating behavior

People seem to have a basic drive to assess the correctness of their opinions, abilities, and emotions. Without absolute indicators of these qualities, people rely on a comparison of themselves with others. So...

Authors: Janet Polivy

Does level of motivation for change impact post-treatment outcomes in the eating disorders? Protocol for a systematic review with quantitative analysis

Eating Disorders are highly prevalent and widespread mental health problems, with marked risk of chronicity and refractoriness to treatment. Affected individuals are hesitant to change their behaviours and the...

Authors: Jeanne Sansfaçon, Howard Steiger, Lise Gauvin, Émilie Fletcher and Mimi Israël

The social facilitation of eating or the facilitation of social eating?

People eat more when they eat in groups. Various explanations have been offered for this “social facilitation” of eating. We consider these explanations and find most of them wanting, especially insofar as the...

Authors: C. Peter Herman

Motivation to change, coping, and self-esteem in adolescent anorexia nervosa: a validation study of the Anorexia Nervosa Stages of Change Questionnaire (ANSOCQ)

Understanding motivation to change is a key issue in both the assessment and the treatment of eating disorders. Therefore, sound instruments assessing this construct are of great help to clinicians. Accordingl...

Authors: Dagmar Pauli, Marcel Aebi, Christa Winkler Metzke and Hans-Christoph Steinhausen

Body dissatisfaction, excessive exercise, and weight change strategies used by first-year undergraduate students: comparing health and physical education and other education students

Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers are known to be under social-, personal-, and employment-related pressure to be and appear physically fit, and to use dangerous dieting and weight control practices...

Authors: Zali Yager, Tonia Gray, Christina Curry and Siân A. McLean

Now you see it, Now you don’t: compulsive exercise in adolescents with an eating disorder

Compulsive exercise (CE) has been proposed as significant in the etiology, development and maintenance of eating disorders (EDs), resulting in more severe and enduring pathology. However, few studies have inve...

Authors: Johanna Levallius, Christina Collin and Andreas Birgegård

Protective factors against disordered eating in family systems: a systematic review of research

This systematic review aims to identify and evaluate the literature investigating protective factors and eating disorders (EDs), to establish what is known about factors in family systems that could be conside...

Authors: Jasmin Langdon-Daly and Lucy Serpell

Adolescents with full or subthreshold anorexia nervosa in a naturalistic sample – characteristics and treatment outcome

Anorexia Nervosa (AN) destroys developmentally important early years of many young people and knowledge is insufficient regarding course, treatment outcome and prognosis. Only a few naturalistic studies have b...

Authors: Katarina Lindstedt, Lars Kjellin and Sanna Aila Gustafsson

A few steps closer to answering the unanswered questions about higher calorie refeeding

Authors: Andrea K. Garber

Outcomes of an inpatient medical nutritional rehabilitation protocol in children and adolescents with eating disorders

Medical stabilization through inpatient nutritional rehabilitation is often necessary for patients with eating disorders (EDs) but includes the inherent risk of refeeding syndrome. Here we describe our experie...

Authors: Rebecka Peebles, Andrew Lesser, Courtney Cheek Park, Kerri Heckert, C. Alix Timko, Eleni Lantzouni, Ronald Liebman and Laurel Weaver

Neurocognitive functions and social functioning in young females with recent-onset anorexia nervosa and recovered individuals

Young individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) or recovered from AN display impairments of social function. To date, however, it is not clear whether they differ from controls with respect to neurocognitive perf...

Authors: Mette Bentz, Jens Richardt Moellegaard Jepsen, Gry Kjaersdam Telléus, Ulla Moslet, Tine Pedersen, Cynthia M. Bulik and Kerstin Jessica Plessen

A Sisyphean task: experiences of perfectionism in patients with eating disorders

Despite the theoretical links between eating disorders and perfectionism, the definition of perfectionism in practice is complicated. The present study explored descriptions and experiences of perfectionism de...

Authors: Suzanne Petersson, Per Johnsson and Kent-Inge Perseius

Reward and punishment sensitivity and disordered eating behaviors in men and women

Reward and punishment sensitivities have been identified as potential contributors to binge eating and compensatory behaviors, though few studies have examined gender differences in these behaviors.

Authors: Kalina T. Eneva, Susan Murray, Jared O’Garro-Moore, Angelina Yiu, Lauren B. Alloy, Nicole M. Avena and Eunice Y. Chen

Comparing effects: a reanalysis of two studies on season of birth bias in anorexia nervosa

Outcomes from studies on season of birth bias in eating disorders have been inconsistent. This inconsistency has been explained by differences in methodologies resulting in different types of effect sizes. The...

Authors: Eirin Winje, Anne-Kari Torgalsbøen, Cathrine Brunborg and Kristin Stedal

Outcomes of an inpatient refeeding protocol in youth with anorexia nervosa: Rady Children’s Hospital San Diego/University of California, San Diego

Current guidelines for nutritional rehabilitation in hospitalized restrictive eating disorder patients recommend a cautious approach to refeeding. Several studies suggest that higher calorie diets may be safe ...

Authors: Tamara R. Maginot, Maya M. Kumar, Jacqueline Shiels, Walter Kaye and Kyung E. Rhee

Outcomes of an inpatient refeeding protocol in youth with Anorexia Nervosa and atypical Anorexia Nervosa at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

Historically, inpatient protocols have adopted relatively conservative approaches to refeeding in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) in order to reduce the risk of refeeding syndrome, a potentially fatal constellation of s...

Authors: Kathryn Smith, Julie Lesser, Beth Brandenburg, Andrew Lesser, Jessica Cici, Robert Juenneman, Amy Beadle, Sarah Eckhardt, Elin Lantz, James Lock and Daniel Le Grange

Developing shared understandings of recovery and care: a qualitative study of women with eating disorders who resist therapeutic care

This paper explores the differing perspectives of recovery and care of people with disordered eating. We consider the views of those who have not sought help for their disordered eating, or who have been given...

Authors: Connie Musolino, Megan Warin, Tracey Wade and Peter Gilchrist

Associations between unhealthy dieting behaviors and tobacco use among adolescents

Cigarette smoking is an important risk factor for unhealthy dieting behaviors (UDBs) in youth. The role of alternative tobacco products and UDB engagement has yet to be examined empirically despite concerning ...

Authors: Megan E. Sutter, Aashir Nasim, Susan Veldheer and Caroline O. Cobb

Listening in the dark: why we need stories of people living with severe and enduring anorexia nervosa

A bold step forward in our approach to Severe and Enduring Anorexia Nervosa invites new paradigms for research and practice. It provides an opportunity for us to explore fault lines, both in our communities of...

Authors: Janet Conti, Paul Rhodes and Heather Adams

A qualitative analysis of participants’ reflections on body image during participation in a randomized controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy

Negative body image is a risk factor for development and relapse in eating disorders (ED). Many patients continue to be dissatisfied with their body shape or weight after treatment. This study presents a quali...

Authors: Maria Fogelkvist, Thomas Parling, Lars Kjellin and Sanna Aila Gustafsson

Use of yoga in outpatient eating disorder treatment: a pilot study

Individuals with restrictive eating disorders present with co-morbid psychiatric disorders and many attempt to control symptoms using strenuous exercises that increase caloric expenditure. Yoga offers a safe a...

Authors: Allison Hall, Nana Ama Ofei-Tenkorang, Jason T. Machan and Catherine M. Gordon

Risk factors for elevated liver enzymes during refeeding of severely malnourished patients with eating disorders: a retrospective cohort study

There are few previous reports regarding the cause and evolution of liver injury in patients with anorexia nervosa (AN) during the refeeding process, and its management remains controversial. This study aimed ...

Authors: Miho Imaeda, Satoshi Tanaka, Hiroshige Fujishiro, Saki Kato, Masatoshi Ishigami, Naoko Kawano, Hiroto Katayama, Kunihiro Kohmura, Masahiko Ando, Kazuo Nishioka and Norio Ozaki

Applying neurobiology to the treatment of adults with anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is a severe, biologically based brain disorder with significant medical complications. It is critical that new, effective treatments are developed to interrupt the persistent course of the ill...

Authors: Laura Hill, Stephanie Knatz Peck, Christina E. Wierenga and Walter H. Kaye