Increased prevalence of eating disorders in Japan since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The study aimed to investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the prevalence of eating disorders in Japan.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of new patients with eating disorders who visited an outpatient eating disorders clinic of a single university hospital in Tokyo, Japan, from April 2020 to March 2021 (FY2020) and April 2019 to March 2020 (FY2019). We determined whether the onset or course in each patient in FY2020 was associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and classified COVID-19-associated medical histories into the following categories: (1) fatness phobia, (2) acceleration of dieting, (3) family relationships, (4) social factors, and (5) mood change. We performed the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to compare the cumulative distribution o

SUBMITTER: Kurisu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8638639 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature