Registered report: A pilot investigation of acute exercise response among girls and young women with and without eating disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Driven exercise (DEx) is a serious and common feature of eating disorders (EDs), but current understanding of factors that give rise to and maintain DEx is limited. DEx may be reinforced through its effects on the threat reduction and reward systems. The current protocol is designed to evaluate acute psychobiological response to exercise among female participants (age 16-22) with and without EDs.

Method

Twenty medically-stable participants with restrictive-spectrum EDs and 20 healthy control (HC) participants will complete study screening and three task visits which will include two 30-minute bouts of aerobic exercise.

Results

We aim to validate and demonstrate feasibility of two tasks capturing exercise response in this sample. Further, we will estimate the

SUBMITTER: Schaumberg K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8595629 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature