ArticleBMC public health2012
Binge eating, purging and non-purging compensatory behaviours decrease from adolescence to adulthood: A population-based, longitudinal study.
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- Prevalence of Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Behaviours amongst Adolescents and Young Adults in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2023Pooled it
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- Beyond the Diagnostic Checklist: A Large-Scale Analysis of Under-Recognized Weight Loss Behaviors in Individuals With Eating Disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Epidemiology of eating disorders: population, prevalence, disease burden and quality of life informing public policy in Australia-a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- An investigation of associations between parenting and binge eating across pubertal development in pre-adolescent and adolescent female participants.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Potential Triggers for Risking the Development of Eating Disorders in Non-Clinical Higher-Education Students in Emerging Adulthood.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Detecting Mental Health Behaviors Using Mobile Interactions: Exploratory Study Focusing on Binge Eating.JMIR mental health · 2022Article
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- Determining the Cut Off Score of the Healthy Lifestyle Screening Tool among High School Students.Journal of lifestyle medicine · 2020Article
- A longitudinal functional magnetic resonance imaging study of task control circuits and bulimic symptoms over adolescence.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2018Article
- Mental health problems among individuals with persistent health challenges from adolescence to young adulthood: a population-based longitudinal study in Norway.BMC public health · 2016Article
- Adolescent eating disorder behaviours and cognitions: gender-specific effects of child, maternal and family risk factors.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2015Article
- Age differences in prenatal testosterone's protective effects on disordered eating symptoms: developmental windows of expression?Behavioral neuroscience · 2015Article
- Prevalence of purging at age 16 and associations with negative outcomes among girls in three community-based cohorts.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2015Article
- The enemy within: the association between self-image and eating disorder symptoms in healthy, non help-seeking and clinical young women.Journal of eating disorders · 2015Article
- Prevalence and correlates of disordered eating in a general population sample: the South East London Community Health (SELCoH) study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Article
- Prevalence and correlates of unhealthy weight control behaviors: findings from the national longitudinal study of adolescent health.Journal of eating disorders · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundSubclinical forms of eating disorders (ED) are highly prevalent, but relatively little is known about age trends, gender differences and distinctions among symptoms. This study investigates age trends and gender difference in binge eating, purging and non-purging compensatory behaviours (CB) and the relationship of such behaviours to psychosocial problems.
methodsData from the national representative longitudinal study "Young in Norway" (ages 14-34 years) were analysed using χ(2) tests, logistic random intercept models and analyses of covariance.
resultsFor both genders, a decrease was found in the prevalence of CB from age 14-16 years to 23 years and over. For binging, however, a significant decrease was found only for females, whose binge eating also declined more markedly over time than did males'. A significant gender difference was detected for purging, with females at higher risk. Purging was related to particularly serious symptoms of psychosocial problems: Those who purged had significantly higher levels of appearance dissatisfaction, anxiety and depressive symptoms, alcohol consumption, self-concept instability and loneliness than those with symptoms of other forms of disordered eating.
conclusionsIndividuals affected by purging need to be targeted as a high-risk group. The distinction in severity among the subclinical ED may indicate the need for the reformulation of the eating disorder not otherwise specified category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-V.
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