OBJECTIVE This study examines the impact of presenter identity on the intended and unintended effects of an eating disorder educational program. METHOD High school students viewed one of two identical videotaped discussions about eating disorders. In one condition, the presenter was identified as an "eating disorder specialist"; in the other condition, she was identified as a "recovered patie...

Results Eating disorder prevalence rates increased significantly from age 14 to age 20, irrespective of the diagnostic system used. The prevalence of DSM-5 eating disorders was significantly higher than the prevalence of DSM-IV eating disorders for females, but not for males. ‘Unspecified’ eating disorders were significantly less common when applying DSM-5 than DSM-IV criteria, for males and fe...

INTRODUCTION Although evidence suggests that interpersonal psychotherapy may be an efficacious treatment for eating disorders, there is surprisingly little systematic knowledge about the interpersonal world of these patients. METHOD SASB self-image ratings were used to explore interpersonal profiles in a large heterogeneous sample of eating disorders (N = 830), matched normal controls (N = 10...

Loneliness and, to a lesser degree, social support are considered under-researched topics in the literature on eating disorders (ED). This study attempted expand relevant body of research by examining loneliness combination with ED patients and healthy controls (HC). Binge-eating problems, emotional eating, resilience, anxiety, depression symptoms were also assessed. Thirty-two twenty-nine HC c...

CONTEXT The relationships among the different eating disorders that exist in the community are poorly understood, especially for residual disorders in which bingeing or purging occurs in the absence of other behaviors. OBJECTIVE To examine a community sample for the number of mutually exclusive weight and eating profiles. DESIGN Data regarding lifetime eating disorder symptoms and weight ra...

Context: Social anxiety and eating disorders have demonstrated high comorbidity in a Multiple Sclerosis Clinic Population. However, social anxiety has not been directly studied with respect to eating disorders. This study, therefore, was designed to determine the relationship between social anxiety and eating disorders in a multiple sclerosis clinic population. Methods and materials: This was a...

OBJECTIVE To examine the moderating effects of gender and race on the relationships among food cravings, binge eating, and eating disorder psychopathology in a community sample. METHODS Data were collected from a convenience sample of 320 adults (53% male; mean age 28.5±8.2years; mean BMI 27.1±5.2kg/m(2); mean education 15.1±2.2years; 64% white, 24% black, and 13% other race) participating in...