The Clinical and Psychopathological Profile of Inpatients with Eating Disorders: Comparing Vomiting, Laxative Abuse, and Combined Purging Behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

The previous literature on purging behavior in eating disorders (EDs) suggests an overall more complicated clinical picture for individuals with this symptomatology. So far, no studies have analyzed the possible differences between the specific types of purging among ED inpatients.

Methods

A clinical sample of 302 inpatients with EDs was classified according to no purging behaviors, vomiting, the abuse of laxatives, and both vomiting and the abuse of laxatives. Participants completed the following questionnaires: the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q), Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (F-MPS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Clinical information was collected for each individual.

Res

SUBMITTER: Panero M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11430986 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature