Maladaptive exercise in eating disorders: lifetime and current impact on mental health and treatment seeking.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many patients with eating disorders report exercise as a central symptom of their illness-as a way to compensate for food intake, prevent weight-gain, and/or reduce negative affect. Previous findings show associations between maladaptive exercise and more severe eating disorder pathology, higher risk for relapse, other co-morbid symptoms, and worse treatment outcome.

Methods

In this study, we included 8252 participants with eating disorders and investigated associations between maladaptive exercise (both lifetime and current) and ED pathology, illness duration, depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicidal ideation, and treatment seeking patterns in individuals with lifetime maladaptive exercise. Participants were included via the Swedish site of the large global st

SUBMITTER: Liao Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11194861 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature