SynthesisEuropean psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists2020
Symptom trajectories into eating disorders: A systematic review of longitudinal, nonclinical studies in children/adolescents.
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- Development of Disordered Weight Control Behaviors and Its Progression to Eating Disorders in Canada: A Nationally Representative Microsimulation.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Adolescent eating behaviours: associations with autistic and ADHD traits in childhood and the mediating role of anxiety.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Article
- Duration of Untreated Eating Disorder and Prodrome in Young People: Characteristics and Relationship to Early Outcomes.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- GDF15 Is Elevated in Eating Disorders and Is Involved in the Gut-Brain Axis via Ghrelin.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026Article
- The cross-sectional study on the association between physical exercise and restrained eating among Chinese college students: the chain mediating roles of emotional intelligence and perceived stress.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Short-form video overuse and adolescents' restrained eating: the roles of body shame and physical exercise.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Network analysis of eating disorders (NAMED): an exploratory study of symptom configuration at different stages of illness.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Exposure to Online Harassment and Disordered Eating in Transgender and Gender-Diverse Young Adults.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- "I could be living a totally different life right now": lived experience and caregiver perspectives on the prevention of eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Dichotomous thinking about food as an understudied subclinical disordered eating cognition.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Gendered racial microaggressions, self-silencing, and disordered eating in Black women.Body image · 2025Article
- Redefining prevention and early intervention to include longstanding and severe eating disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Nature and nurture in fussy eating from toddlerhood to early adolescence: findings from the Gemini twin cohort.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Early intervention in eating disorders: introducing the chronopathogram.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Review
- Longitudinal patterns of disordered eating behaviors in children and adolescents from the Brazilian High-Risk Cohort study for mental conditions.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundEating disorders (EDs) are serious mental illnesses that can be life-threatening. Stage of illness models and early intervention strategies could be informed by a better understanding of symptomatology that precedes the onset of an ED. This review aims to explore which symptoms (both ED and other psychiatric disorder-related) exist prior to the onset of an ED and whether there any prospective associations between these symptomatologies.
methodsA systematic literature review was conducted in MEDLINE, Embase, and PsycINFO for large, longitudinal, prospective studies in nonclinical cohorts of children/adolescents that report symptoms prior to the onset of an ED. A quality assessment of included studies was conducted using the Newcastle-Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale.
resultsA total of 22 studies were included, and over half were assessed to be of good quality. Studies identified the presence of a broad range of ED and other psychiatric disorder-related symptoms prior to ED onset. Possible prospective associations were identified, including early eating and feeding difficulties in childhood, to ED-related symptoms (e.g., dieting and body dissatisfaction) and other psychiatric disorder-related symptoms (e.g., anxiety and depression) in childhood/early adolescence, progressing to severe symptomatology (e.g., extreme weight control behaviors and self-harm) in mid-adolescence/emerging adulthood.
conclusionThe trajectory of symptoms identified to precede and possibly predict onset of an ED may inform early intervention strategies within the community. Suggestions for further research are provided to establish these findings and the clinical implications of these discussed, in order to inform how best to target prodromal stages of EDs.
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