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...

objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of attachment-based interventions on females suffering from eating related disorders. the study method was experimental with a pretest-posttest control group. the study sample included 32 elementary school female students with eating disorders, obesity problems, and attachment disorders. sampling method was purposive.  methods: aft...

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...

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...

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...

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...

proper nutrition plays an important role in physical and cognitive development of children. the early diagnosis and treatment of eating problems is very important. this study aimed to survey eating problems of children with down syndrome. in this descriptive-analytic study, an eating problem test used to survey eating problems of children with down syndrome in exceptional schools. the findings ...

background: this study aimed to highlight the proportion of disordered eating attitudes among university students in kuwait by gender and obesity. methods: a sample of 530 kuwaiti university students was selected from four universities in kuwait (203 men and 327 women). the eating attitudes test‑26 was used to determine disordered eating attitudes. results: the prevalence of disordered eating a...