Double trouble? Associations of parental substance use and eating behaviors with pediatric disordered eating.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Comorbidity between substance use disorders and eating disorders is common and related to severity of psychopathology. Parents' eating disorder or substance use disorder have been examined independently and appear to be related to psychopathology in their children. However, no prior work has examined whether co-occurring substance use and eating disorder behaviors in parents relate to eating-disorder psychopathology and weight in their children.

Method

Participants (N = 435) were parents who completed an online cross-sectional survey. Parents reported their personal substance use and eating-disorder behaviors. Relationships between parental substance use (SUD), parental binge eating (ED), and co-occurring parental substance use and binge eating (SUDxED) with child

SUBMITTER: Boswell RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8506907 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature