ArticleNutrients2020
The Impact of Retrospective Childhood Maltreatment on Eating Disorders as Mediated by Food Addiction: A Cross-Sectional Study.
Article in Nutrients, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Childhood traumatic experiences and addiction-like eating behaviors: the mediating roles of attachment, mentalization, and emotional eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The Path from Childhood Emotional Maltreatment to Disordered Eating Behaviors: The Role of Reflective Functioning and Food Addiction.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Trauma Experiences Are Common in Anorexia Nervosa and Related to Eating Disorder Pathology but Do Not Influence Weight-Gain during the Start of Treatment.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
- Limitations of the protective measure theory in explaining the role of childhood sexual abuse in eating disorders, addictions, and obesity: an updated model with emphasis on biological embedding.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Review
- Food addiction and lifetime alcohol and illicit drugs use in specific eating disorders.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Mediating Factors between Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Eating Disorders Development: A Systematic Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Inter-Individual Differences in Food Addiction and Other Forms of Addictive-Like Eating Behavior.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Food Addiction and Psychosocial Adversity: Biological Embedding, Contextual Factors, and Public Health Implications.Nutrients · 2020Review
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12 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe current study aimed to test whether food addiction (FA) might mediate the relationship between the presence of a history of childhood maltreatment and eating disorder (ED) symptom severity.
methodsParticipants were 231 patients with ED presenting between May 2017 and January 2020 to a daycare treatment facility for assessment and management with mainly the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2), the Child Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS 2.0).
resultsParticipants had a median age of 24 (interquartile range (IQR) 20-33) years and manifested anorexia nervosa (61.47%), bulimia nervosa (16.88%), binge-eating disorders (9.09%), and other types of ED (12.55%). They were grouped into those likely presenting FA (
conclusionThese results are compatible with a model in which certain types of childhood maltreatment, especially physical neglect, may induce, maintain, and/or exacerbate ED symptoms via FA which may guide future treatments.
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