eating disorders are common psychological/psychosomatic disorders that cause disturbance in physical and mental health and quality of life. binge eating disorder, in spite of being the most prevalent eating disorder, has not been largely investigated. in this article, we discuss the definition, classification, epidemiology, and physiopathology of different eating disorders, and then we focus on...

a bstract  background: eating disorder symptoms are among the most common disorders in perinatal period and are influenced by various environmental and psychosocial factors such as anxiety disorders. so, the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between eating disorder symptoms and obsessive compulsive disorder in primigravida women.     materials and methods: this cross‑sectional...

this paper highlights a variety of personality disorders in individuals with eating disorder and also emphasizes the importance of identifying clinically meaningful eating disorders subtypes based on concurrent personality disorder. the relationship between personality disorders and eating disorders is an important issue as this association has implications for assessment and treatment. differe...

introduction: eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety can be occurring in the same time. also social anxiety is one of the important factors predicting eating disorder symptoms which vary among different cultures and countries. the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between eating disorder symptoms and social anxiety in school boys.  materials and methods: this was a cross-...

objective: compulsive or binge eating is a kind of disturbed eating behavior, which is mostly observed among dieting women, and is integrated with appetite disorder, and uncontrolled eating of plenty of junk food. the compulsive eating scale (ces) created first by kagan & squires in 1984, is an eight-item self-reporting instrument that is made to measure the severity of binge eating disorder. t...

purpose and background: eating disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder co-occur on many occasions. impulsivity is one of the prevalent features between the mentioned disorders. the purpose of this study is to compare the feature of impulsivity and its components in eating disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and the normal individuals. methods and materials: this study carried on patien...

abstract background: an association of eating disorder with diabetes mellitus may lead to a serious lack of metabolic control, higher mortality and morbidity. there is no recent study conducted in the iranian population about eating disorder and its variants. the aim of the present study is investigation of frequency of disturbed eating behaviors in adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes mellitu...

night eating syndrome is a common disorder in eating behaviors that occurs in close relation to the night time sleep cycle. although eating disorders are common in society, night eating syndrome has been left neglected by health care professionals. in this report we present a case of eating disorder that exhibits some novel features of night eating syndrome. our case was a progressed type of ea...

abstract background: eating disorder is one of the most common health problems with clinical and psychological consequences, which can affect body image in cancer patients. similar studies in this area for checking the status of this disorder and its relevance with body image in patients with cancer are limited. therefore, this study was designed with the aim of determination of eating disorder...