Lifetime and current mental health based on avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder history versus other eating disorder history in the Healthy Minds Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Research on psychiatric comorbidities associated with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) primarily compares ARFID versus anorexia nervosa (AN). Little is known about comorbidities associated with mixed ARFID/other eating disorder (ED) history or ARFID comorbidities relative to EDs beyond AN. This study assessed lifetime and current psychiatric factors in a large college sample with varying ED histories.

Method

Participants were United States students from the 2021/2022 Healthy Minds Study who endorsed lifetime professionally diagnosed EDs (N = 4657). Chi-square tests compared lifetime ED groups (ARFID, ARFID + Non-ARFID ED, Non-ARFID ED) on lifetime neurodevelopmental, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, trauma/stressor-related, and depressive disorder pr

SUBMITTER: Richson BN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11483228 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature