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Body image disturbance in children and adolescents with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: a systematic review.
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- Effects of inpatient treatment of adolescents with anorexia nervosa are associated with body representation: a monocentric pilot study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Losing weight, gaining confidence? actual weight does not predict body (dis)satisfaction and self-esteem in adolescents with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Transdiagnostic body dissatisfaction: comparing adolescents with anorexia nervosa and depression during body exposure.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Predicting anorexia nervosa treatment efficacy: an explainable machine learning approach.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Understanding Family Experiences: A Study on Mental Health Literacy in Adolescent Eating Disorder Diagnoses.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Anorexia nervosa in children and adolescents: an early detection of risk factors.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2024Article
- Development of Primal World Beliefs.Human development · 2024Article
- Visual system structural and functional connections during face viewing in body dysmorphic disorder.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- A Comprehensive Study of Positive Body Image as a Predictor of Psychological Well-Being in Anorexia Nervosa.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Subjective and objective stress during body exposure: a comparison of adolescents with anorexia nervosa versus high body dissatisfaction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Short-term effects of a multidisciplinary inpatient intensive rehabilitation treatment on body image in anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Body image impact on quality of life and adolescents' binge eating: the indirect role of body image coping strategies.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Article
- Distorted Body Image and Mental Pain in Anorexia Nervosa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Experiences of parents and patients hospitalised in a child psychiatric unit for anorexia nervosa after reorganisation of care imposed by the COVID-19 Pandemic in France: a qualitative study-The QUALICOVID study.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Brain and gut microbiota disorders in the psychopathology of anorexia nervosa.Translational neuroscience · 2022Review
- How deep is your thought? The relations between intolerance of uncertainty, worry and weight and shape concerns in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Body Image in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review of the Emerging Empirical Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
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Abstract
purposeWhile several meta-analyses and reviews revealed a worse body image disturbance (BID) in adults with anorexia nervosa (AN) or bulimia nervosa (BN) than in controls, no systematic evidence is available on BID in children and adolescents. Since the usual onset of AN and BN is before the age of 21 years, being aware of BID in children and adolescents is crucial for preventing and treating eating disorders. This systematic review aims to provide an initial overview of differences in the BID components perception, global subjective satisfaction, affect/cognition, and behavior between children and adolescents with AN and BN and healthy controls.
methodsWe conducted a systematic data search in PubMed and PsycINFO based on a priori eligibility criteria (AN or BN group; gender-matched healthy control group; each group n ≥ 20; maximum age 19 years; BID outcome compared between groups; published in English or German).
resultsWe were able to include k = 8 records. Compared to healthy controls, children and adolescents with AN and BN scored higher in the BID components perception, global subjective satisfaction, affect/cognition, and behavior.
conclusionsAs previously found in adults, BID in children and adolescents is associated with AN and BN. Interventions and treatments are needed to alleviate BID in children and adolescents with BN and AN. We also noted that we need more investigations on BID differences in children and adolescents to improve the database. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level I, Systematic review.
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