As said by participants in this survey, there are key systemic issues that need addressing as a priority. Food insecurity (a lack of economic, social or physical means to ensure a sufficient supply of nutritionally appropriate food; Purdam et al., 2016) is at an all-time high in the UK and greatly affects those with EDs (Hazzard et al., 2023; Kuehne et al., 2023). Introducing measures that contribute to a culture of shame and anxiety around food will exacerbate the guilt and shame already experienced by those affected by food insecurity and eating disorders. Adding calorie information on menus feels like an extra cruel addition to the hostile environment those recovering from an ED already find themselves in.
Overall, these findings shed light on the barriers faced by transgender and gender diverse service users in receiving care for eating disorders (EDs), from the perspective of providers. The study has important implications for clinical practice, particularly regarding potential areas for improvement in the attitudes of healthcare professionals towards gender minority individuals receiving treatment within ED services.
This paper is a call for health providers to become more aware of their own biases and reflect on the impact of current models of care and communication about the mental health of patients across the weight spectrum. A continuation of the current model of caring for patients who do not fit the emaciated archetype of ED will only perpetuate the difficulties of affected individuals and contribute to increasing health disparities based on weight.
In this paper, the feelings, thoughts and experiences of an individual with bulimia nervosa are explained, and the positive and negative effects of their experiences during the treatment process are emphasized. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Given that most eating disorders develop in adolescence and early adulthood, early life experiences are said to play a key role in the aetiology of eating disorders. There are well-documented relationships between early maladaptive schemas and eating disorders, early maladaptive schemas and temperament and temperament and perceived parenting style. The present study aimed to test a hypothesis that perceived parenting style predicts temperament, which predicts early maladaptive schemas, which predict eating disorder symptoms in young people.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists recently published data showing an 84% increase in UK hospital admissions for eating disorders over the past 5 years, highlighting the importance of the college's new Medical Emergencies in Eating Disorders (MEED) guidance.
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Research shows highly palatable foods can elicit addictive eating behaviours or ‘food addiction’. Early adolescence is theorised to be a vulnerable period for the onset of addictive eating behaviours, yet minimal research has examined this. This study explored the prevalence and correlates of addictive eating behaviours in a large early adolescent sample.
The aim of this study was to identify the prevalence of undetected eating disorders (EDs) among adolescent psychiatric inpatients and to investigate the association between clinical, psychiatric, and sociocultural factors and EDs. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This research presents novel findings relating to online FBT for children and young people with eating disorders, indicating its potential to aid weight gain, reduce eating disorder and anxiety symptom severity, and improve caregiver self-efficacy. These findings emphasise the potential utility of online FBT within clinical practice, and the possibilities for addressing long waiting times and clinician availability. In addition, traditional FBT was extended by the provision of support from peer and family mentors, highlighting the potential for integrating lived experience perspectives alongside medical expertise within online FBT.
Whilst the authors consider the results of this review as preliminary, the finding that a significant barrier to help-seeking in eating disorders is denying or failing to perceive the severity of illness is consistent with systematic reviews (e.g., Ali et al., 2017) and qualitative research from a lived experience perspective (Leppanen et al, 2021). Breaking through this denial is a difficult but important development for many patients in their eating disorder recovery, and is an important element for clinicians working in early intervention services to consider.
Early onset anorexia nervosa (EOAN) is a subclassification of AN, defined by an onset before 14 years, and characterized by specific demographic, neuropsychological, and clinical features. The present study aims to provide naturalistic data on a wide sample with EOAN, focusing on psychopathological and nutritional changes occurring in the context of a multidisciplinary hospital intervention, as well as the rate of rehospitalizations during a 1-year follow-up.
There is a direct association between patients with insecure attachment style (IAS), behavioural inhibition (BIS) as well as behavioural activation (BAS) motivational systems and anorexia nervosa (AN). However, the possible direct relationships between these three variables have not been studied. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
This article outlines the most common types of eating disorders, the importance of the school nurse and factors that have affected the prevalence of eating disorders in young people, highlighting that early intervention and prevention is vital. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Early intervention in eating disorders (EDs) is hampered by a lack of validated measures of barriers to treatment seeking. The present study examined the factor structure of the Perceived Barriers to Psychological Treatment scale (PBPT) and a combination of PBPT and Barriers to Seeking Help for ED items (BATSH-ED) with respect to treatment-seeking for an ED.
The study aimed to assess changes in adolescent visits due to eating disorders (EDs) during the pandemic. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Literature suggested that metacognitions are involved in eating problems and may be relevant to the understanding of Binge Eating Disorder (BED). The goal of the current studies was to develop the first self-report instrument on metacognitions about binge eating. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
At its April 2021 meeting, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Board of Trustees approved “The American Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients With Eating Disorders.” The full guideline is available at APA’s Practice Guidelines website. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.
Explore treatment response and effectiveness of virtual treatment for a paediatric eating disorder sample. To read the full article, choose Open Athens “Institutional Login” and search for “Midlands Partnership”.