Associations between avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder profiles and trauma exposure in veteran men and women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Trauma exposure, particularly interpersonal trauma, is prevalent among individuals with eating disorders (EDs), and trauma exposure and the subsequent development of posttraumatic stress disorder have been associated with poorer outcomes for ED treatment. To our knowledge, there are no published investigations of trauma exposure among individuals with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), a new diagnosis introduced by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5. We investigated associations between trauma exposure and ARFID profiles in a sample of U.S. military veteran men and women.

Method

Participants in this cross-sectional study included 1494 veterans randomly selected from the population of post-9/11 veterans who had separated from

SUBMITTER: Mitchell KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11656887 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature