Trial reportThe International journal of eating disorders2013
Picking or nibbling: frequency and associated clinical features in bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge eating disorder.
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- Time-Limited Eating and Continuous Glucose Monitoring in Adolescents with Obesity: A Pilot Study.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Dietary Habits, Obesity, and Bariatric Surgery: A Review of Impact and Interventions.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Conceptualization of Grazing: The Psychometric Properties of The Repetitive Eating Questionnaire (Rep[eat]-Q) Turkish Form.Turk psikiyatri dergisi = Turkish journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Quality of Life in Obese Patients from a Multidisciplinary Bariatric Consultation: A Cross-Sectional Study Comparing to a Non-Bariatric Population and to the General Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Gut-brain mechanisms underlying changes in disordered eating behaviour after bariatric surgery: a review.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2022Review
- Disordered eating following bariatric surgery: a review of measurement and conceptual considerations.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2021Review
- Grazing in children: associations with child's characteristics and parental feeding practices.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Eating Pathology After Bariatric Surgery: an Updated Review of the Recent Literature.Current psychiatry reports · 2019Review
- Problematic Eating Behaviors and Eating Disorders Associated with Bariatric Surgery.The Psychiatric clinics of North America · 2019Review
- The short inventory of grazing (SIG): development and validation of a new brief measure of a common eating behaviour with a compulsive dimension.Journal of eating disorders · 2019Article
- Picking and nibbling in children and adolescents with eating disorders.The International journal of eating disorders · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectivePicking or ribbling (P&N) is a newly studied eating behavior characterized by eating in an unplanned and repetitious manner in between meals and snacks. This behavior seems to be related to poorer weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery for weight loss in severely obese patients, but clarification is still required regarding its value in other clinical samples. The purpose of this study was to investigate the frequency of P&N across different eating disorder samples, as well as to examine its association with psychopathological eating disorder features.
methodOur sample included treatment-seeking adult participants, recruited for five different clinical trials: 259 binge eating disorder (BED); 264 bulimia nervosa (BN), and 137 anorexia nervosa (AN). Participants were assessed using the Eating Disorders Examination interview before entering the clinical trials.
resultsP&N was reported by 44% of the BED; 57.6% of the BN; and 34.3% of the AN participants. No association was found between P&N and BMI, the presence of compensatory behaviors, binge eating, or any of the eating disorder examination subscales. DISCUSSION: This study suggests that P&N behavior is highly prevalent across eating disorder diagnoses, but it is not associated with psychopathology symptoms or other eating disordered behaviors.
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