Associations of elevated weight status with symptom severity and treatment outcomes in binge/purge eating disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Binge-eating and purging behaviors commonly co-occur with overweight. However, little is known about the potential associations of elevated weight status with eating disorder severity or treatment outcomes. Thus, the present study compared binge-eating and purging patients with low, normal, and high weight statuses on eating disorder and mood symptoms at treatment admission, and tested whether weight status was associated with symptom change over treatment.

Method

The sample included 135 adult female patients in an intensive outpatient program, who completed self-assessments at admission and discharge. MANOVAs compared the groups at treatment admission, and multilevel models examined changes over time.

Results

At admission, the high-weight group reported gre

SUBMITTER: Chen JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8207454 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature