Associations between COVID-19 pandemic impact, dimensions of behavior and eating disorders: A longitudinal UK-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is growing concern about how people with eating disorders are impacted by the widespread societal restructuring during the COVID-19 crisis.

Aims

We aimed to examine how factors relating to the impact of the pandemic associate with eating disorders and quantify this relationship while adjusting for concurrent and longitudinal parameters of risk.

Methods

We gathered demographic, behavioral and clinical data pre- and mid-pandemic as well as childhood trauma history from a longitudinal online survey of 489 adults (mean age 23.4 years) recruited from the Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN). Using pre-pandemic (T1) and concurrent (T2) data we aimed to predict eating disorders at mid-pandemic (T2). We deployed hierarchical generalized logistic regressi

SUBMITTER: Ioannidis K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8916988 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature