Pregnant women with eating disorders are at risk for multiple complications to both the woman and the fetus. Eating disorders are particularly prevalent among adolescent girls and young women. This paper suggests a road map for the obstetrician gynecologist caring for women who either have an active eating disorder, report a history of a prior eating disorder, or when the clinician suspects tha...

OBJECTIVE This study examined whether sexual and physical abuse, bullying by peers, and ethnicity-based discrimination are associated with an increased risk for developing binge eating disorder in black women and in white women and whether any increase in risk is specific for the development of binge eating disorder. METHOD A community sample of 162 women with binge eating disorder and 251 he...

the present study was aimed at comparing the effectiveness of schema therapy and cbt on eating disorder symptoms in patients with anorexia nervosa considering the parental bonding. the study had an experimental method with pretest-posttest design and follow-up with the control group. the study population included all patients aged 16 to 23 years with eating disorders who had referred to psychia...

The present study examined the relative contributions of self-compassion, fear of self-compassion, and self-esteem in eating disorder pathology. One-hundred and fifty-five female undergraduate students and 97 females entering eating disorder treatment completed the Self-Compassion Scale, Fears of Compassion Scale, Rosenberg Self-Esteem Inventory, and Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire. T...

The current study aimed to compare the prevalence, stability, and psychosocial correlates of DSM-IV-TR and DSM-5 eating disorders, in a population-based sample of male and female adolescents followed prospectively from 14 to 20 years of age. Participants (N = 1,383; 49% male) were drawn from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, a prospective, population-based cohort study that...

INTRODUCTION Eating disorders commonly affect young girls and women. Four eating disorders are analyzed in this study: anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), eating disorders not otherwise specified (EDNOS), and binge eating disorder (BED). Eating disorders are a modern concept and as such there is no critically appraised research on how Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) conceptualizes o...

Prior research has shown that psychopathology and stress are associated with eating disorder symptoms, but the relations among these variables were confounded by concurrent measurement at a single point in time. The present study examined the relations among stress, psychological, and eating disorder symptoms prospectively over 4 months in 143 adolescent girls. In cross-sectional analyses at fo...

This study examined the unique associations between eating disorder symptoms and two emotion-related constructs (affective lability and anxiousness) assessed via distinct methodologies in anorexia nervosa (AN). Women (N = 116) with full or subthreshold AN completed baseline emotion and eating disorder assessments, followed by two weeks of ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Hierarchical regr...