Hoarding Symptoms in Eating Disorders: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Hoarding behaviors have been reported in eating disorders (EDs), particularly those characterized by binge eating; however, research on this comorbidity is scarce. This cross-sectional observational study investigated hoarding symptoms in a community-based sample of individuals with lifetime ED diagnoses (N = 5927).

Method

Participants were grouped by ED history: anorexia nervosa (AN) only, AN and another ED (AN Mixed), bulimia nervosa (BN) only, binge-eating disorder (BED) only, and both BN and BED (BN-BED). Hoarding symptoms were compared across these groups and to published data from cohorts with hoarding disorder (HD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and nonclinical controls, using independent t tests. Logistic regression was used to examine the odds of sc

SUBMITTER: Kapadia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12570886 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature