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Filter by:While eating disorders in males are often overlooked, up to 7 million men in the United States will experience an Eating Disorder in their lifetime. Critically, men are less likely to seek treatment for an Eating Disorder compared to females. Therefore, prevention programs that target male-specific Eating Disorder risk factors prior to the development of an eating or appearance-related disorder are crucial in reducing eating disorders in this population. Preliminary work by our group established the initial efficacy of a novel program, the Body Project: More than Muscles (MTM) compared to assessment-only control. This study will replicate and extend this research by comparing MTM to a time and attention-matched control used in previous eating disorder prevention work, media advocacy (MA).
There is a gap in the literature about the feasibility and implementation of parent-led support groups for parents who have children or adolescents with eating disorders. In this study, we will be observing the experiences of 40 parents in Ontario who will virtually participate in one of 3 parent-led support groups for parents of children and youth with eating disorders. Parents will be expected to attend the virtual sessions twice a month over the course of six months. We hope to evaluate the acceptability, cost, and parental outcomes of the parent-led support groups via surveys before, during, and after the study, as well as using a post-study interview.
Clinical or subclinical eating disorders (EDs) impact 10% of individuals in their lifetime and are marked by significant functional impairment, early mortality, chronicity, and emotional distress. ED symptoms often emerge in adolescence, with peak onset age in the teenage years. Early recognition and treatment of these devastating illnesses are needed to prevent long-term consequences and a chronic course. Most (80%) individuals with EDs, including teens with EDs (TwEDs), do not receive treatment. Due to major barriers to access and to the delivery of treatment for TwEDs, there is a need for a new model of service delivery that can identify and help TwEDs. We demonstrated our ability to harness social media to identify and efficiently recruit large numbers of TwEDs. Our team has successfully developed a guided self-help cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based mobile app for previous studies and have adapted this app to address the specific needs of TwEDs. In proposed study, we will test this updated mHealth intervention, which includes simplified language and tailored content relevant to adolescent issues and a social networking feature designed to facilitate group exchanges. This mHealth intervention will be investigated among 161 TwEDs recruited from Instagram/Facebook to test preliminary efficacy and feasibility of this mHealth intervention to improved eating disorder symptoms among TwEDs not currently engaged in treatment. We will also garnering feedback via a mixed methods approach on the efficiency, technical effectiveness, and satisfaction with mHealth intervention content and features. Participants will be randomized to one of 3 study arms, including a control group (self-help version of the app), a group with access to the coached mobile app only, and a group with access to the coached mobile app plus social networking feature. We hypothesized that those with access to the coached mobile app intervention will have improved ED outcomes in comparison to the control group, and that those with access to the additional social networking feature will have the most improvement in ED symptoms out of all three groups.
Eating disorders (ED) are serious mental health illnesses interfering psychological, physical and social well-being. Besides the severity of ED, most of the individuals presenting symptoms are either not detected or treated. Among ones undergoing treatment, full recovery and remission are also not very likely. Given many negative consequences of ED and personal, sociocultural and financial barriers for ED treatment and low rates of full recovery, any intervention for preventing the development and/or chronicization of ED would be a useful step for the improvement of public health. Literature has established that Turkish people represent unhealthy eating attitudes and behaviours as similar to Western societies. Evidence shows that the prevalence of disordered eating attitudes and behaviours in Turkey changed between 2.2% to 12.8%. Prevalence of ED particularly among university students and these problems are also likely to negatively influence students' psychological, social and physical well-being, relationships with pairs, educational attainment and academic success. However, awareness regarding ED, help-seeking and receiving treatment appears to be less likely. Since there is no ED prevention program available for university students in Turkey, it was aimed to develop a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy oriented 6 session ED prevention program (Healthy Eating Attitudes and Behaviours Group Program) for female university students presenting a high risk for ED. A further aim was to examine feasibility, acceptability and efficacy of this program. Evidence-based clinical guidelines for ED have indicated that CBT is consistently recommended for all subtypes of ED, and CBT oriented prevention programs have been shown to result in a better outcome for university students. Therefore, it was expected that university students who participated in 6 session Healthy Eating Attitudes and Behaviours Group Program would present significantly greater reductions in ED related psychopathology, body dissatisfaction, emotion regulation difficulties and internalization and pressure of sociocultural attitudes towards appearance compared to participants in active control group condition (single session Eating Disorders and Body Dissatisfaction: A Group Work) and wait-list control condition. Also, it was expected that the level of acceptability and feasibility of 6 session Healthy Eating Attitudes and Behaviours Group Program would be good.
In anorexia nervosa,the eating disorder (ED) is the cause of thinness. In severe obesity, the overweight is a symptom. This symptom, however, is only the consequence of possibly deregulated eating behavior. The literature, focusus a specified ED of DSM-V: Binge Eating Disorder (BED) or Binge Eating, whom estimated prevalence in the severely obese population varies from 1.4 to 49% depending on the studies. The other ED, called unspecified ED (or EDNOS for Eating Disorder Non Otherwise Specified in the English literature), are much less known. The main objective of this study is to assess the prevalence rate of unspecified ED (EDNOS or "non-BED ED") in subjects with severe obesity (BMI> 35) consulting for medical or surgical management in a General Hospital Center CSO (Specialized Obesity Center) using an adapted version of the QEWP-R, called the QEWP-RA.
This is an observational study where patients with eating disorders (ED) are compared with healthy controls without eating disorder (HC) regarding eating disorders features and autism spectrum features. Also patients will be reassessed after 5 years.
MUMMIEBODIES is a research study when women with eating disorders encounter pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. These are some condensed months that represent major challenges for this group. There are both a scientific and clinical basis for the mother's mental health to influence care and interaction with the child. In the case of eating disorders, there is also a risk of harmful consequences for the fetus as well as for more complicated pregnancies and births. This is a very important field of knowledge, but also a field about which there is far too little scientific knowledge. There is too little scientific knowledge about how women with eating disorders physically and mentally relate to their bodies and food during and after pregnancy. There is a great need for research that promotes expertise in how to help and meet women with eating disorders in these important phases of life. The aim of the study is to bring out the users' experiences. The investigators interview face-to-face pregnant women and mothers with eating disorders about their subjective experiences both during pregnancy and during childbirth. Recruitment of participants will be via health stations. The investigators will identify the course, experiences and solutions when women with eating disorders encounter pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. The investigators focus on three themes: 1) experience of course and change, 2) experience of emotional, cognitive and relational core experiences, and 3) women's own perceptions of what is the best help. The three themes have in common that they are fundamental for later development of help for this vulnerable group. The investigators have a clear idea that some of the best preventive work can be done before life really starts.
The study will assess the influence of culinary art therapy group (a new therapeutic tool) for adults with eating disorders. It will assess changes in thinking patterns and behavioural patterns associated with food and eating.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a wise intervention based on self-affirmation (SA) and Implicit Theories of Personality (ITP) building resilience in victims. Half of the participants will receive the experimental intervention, while the other half will receive a control intervention.
The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of eating disorders in type 1 insulin-dependent diabetes patients