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The prevalence of orthorexia nervosa among eating disorder patients after treatment.
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- The various facets of orthorexic eating behavior: five case reports of individuals with supposed orthorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Orthorexic tendency and its association with weight control methods and dietary variety in Polish adults: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Assessing the presence and motivations of orthorexia nervosa among athletes and adults with eating disorders: a cross-sectional study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- Exploring the relationship between dysfunctional metacognitive processes and orthorexia nervosa: the moderating role of emotion regulation strategies.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Perfectionism or Perfectionisms in Orthorexia Nervosa.Nutrients · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe pursuit for healthy food consumption is considered a laudable habit. This attitude can turn into pathological when cognitions and worries about healthy nutrition lead to such an accurate food selection that correct diet becomes the most important part of one's own life leading to important dietary restrictions, stereotyped eating or impairment in important areas of functioning. This behaviour is coined orthorexia nervosa (ON) and can share common characteristics with anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN). The purpose of the present study was to examine the frequency of ON among women with eating disorders (EDs) and to evaluate if it changed after treating the ED.
methodsThirty-two patients with AN or BN were evaluated by means of the ORTO-15, the Yale-Brown-Cornell Eating Disorder Scale (YBC-EDS) and the Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) before (t0) and 3 years after the treatment of their ED (t1), and compared to 32 female healthy controls (HC) matched by gender, age, and BMI at t1.
resultsA significantly higher percentage of patients either at t0 (28 %) or t1 (58 %) resulted positive to ORTO-15 compared to controls (6 %). YBC-EDS and EAT-26 scores were higher among ED patients than in HC, but they decreased from t0 to t1.
conclusionsOrthorexia nervosa symptoms are highly prevalent among patients with AN and BN, and tend to increase after treatment. ON seems associated both with the clinical improvement of AN and BN and the migration towards less severe forms of EDs. It is necessary to clarify if ON residual symptomatology can be responsible for a greater number of relapses and recurrences of EDs.
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