OBJECTIVE Smoking has been reported as an appetite and weight control method in eating disorders; however, few studies have explored patterns of smoking across subtypes of eating disorders. The aim of this paper was to explore the patterns and prevalence of smoking behavior in 1,524 women from two of the multisite Price Foundation Genetic studies. METHOD Smoking behavior was assessed in 306 i...

Research has found that athletes, particularly those involved in "aesthetically oriented" sports, experience significant pressures for thinness and are at increased risk for developing eating disorders. This study targeted cheerleading coaches as potential change agents by training them to recognize the symptoms of eating disorders and reduce the pressures for thinness among their squads. Cheer...

OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of emotional eating and lack of cognitive reappraisal on eating pathology in women with binge-purge and restricting type eating disorders. METHOD Women with a diagnosis of anorexia or bulimia nervosa according to the DSM-IV-tr (n = 50) and non-clinical women without eating disorders (n = 52) were asked about emotional eating tendencies, adaptive emotion regu...

Nearly 10% of young women experience clinical eating disorders (Lewinsohn et al., 2000), and an even greater amount of women experience subclinical eating disorders and risk factors association with eating disorders, such as body dissatisfaction. Eating disorders are associated with a number of negative physical and psychological consequences, increased risk of mortality, and are often severe a...

Although several investigations have noted an association between eating disorders and dissociative disorders, little work has addressed the treatment of patients with both conditions. As an inpatient service focused on severely-ill eating disorder patients, it became necessary to diagnose and treat concomitant dissociative disorders. We describe a cognitive-behavioral inpatient program develop...

OBJECTIVE To examine the mediational significance of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the development of eating disorder symptomatology following sexually traumatic experiences. METHOD Seventy-one victims of sexual trauma and 25 control subjects completed interviews and questionnaires assessing eating disorder psychopathology and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology. Mediation...

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...

BACKGROUND Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are common in patients with eating disorders. The aim of this study was to determine, using factor analysis, whether these GI symptom factors (clusters) in eating disorder patients hold true to the Rome II classification of functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGIDs). METHODS Inpatients in a specialised eating disorder unit completed the Rome II que...

Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate prevalence disordered eating behaviors and attitudes in Slovenian male female categorized athletes relation depressive symptoms their alcohol consumption. Methods: sample included 198 between 18 20 years age. Eating Attitude Test, Center for Epidemologic Studies Depression Scale, Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test were used measure behavio...

conclusions: these findings demonstrated that cognitive failure and alexithymia had important roles in strengthening and appearance of high-risk behaviors in students with learning disabilities. therefore, considering those problems, precautionary actions might be necessary. results: the results showed that high-risk behaviors had significant positive correlations with difficulty identifying fe...