ReviewChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Mediating Factors between Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Eating Disorders Development: A Systematic Review.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Biological treatments for co-occurring eating disorders and psychological trauma: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Non-interpersonal traumatic events in patients with eating disorders: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence of Eating Disorders in People With Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyPooled it
- Childhood Trauma and Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviours in Adulthood: Investigating the Role of Daily Stress and Daily Perfectionistic Thinking.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Disordered Eating in US Youth: The PLATE Study.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- Perceived stress appraisals mediate the association between childhood trauma and trait binge eating in adults.Journal of health psychology · 2026Article
- Unmasking Atypical Eating Disorders: A Case Series Highlighting Diagnostic Delays and Underrecognized Populations.Cureus · 2026Article
- Childhood trauma, emotions, and the eating disorder voice.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Positive and Negative Affect and Eating Behavior Among Adults: The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Disordered eating in office workers is correlated with trauma, stress, emotional regulation, and sleep quality: a cross-sectional screening.AIMS public health · 2026Article
- The impact of trauma exposure on psychiatric symptoms and treatment of eating disorders in adolescents.Psychiatry research · 2025Article
- Effects of Childhood Emotional Abuse on Treatment Outcome in Adolescent Inpatients With Anorexia Nervosa.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Are they looking for support? Mental health and trauma awareness as predictors of mental health help-seeking behaviour among young adults and adolescents in Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates.BMC public health · 2025Article
- "We went fishing in the dark": a case report highlighting one therapeutic process in an out-patient comorbid anorexia nervosa (AN) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The Role of Disgust Emotion in Eating Disorders and Its Relationship with Dissociative Symptoms.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Optimising Psychosocial Interventions for People With Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders (SEED) Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals in Ireland: A Qualitative Study.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
- The current clinical approach to feeding and eating disorders aimed to increase personalization of management.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2025Article
- Early maladaptive schemas mediate the relationship between severe childhood trauma and eating disorder symptoms: evidence from an exploratory study.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Association between childhood maltreatment and obsessive-compulsive disorder comorbid with eating disorders: a cross-sectional study.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Childhood maltreatment, shame, psychological distress, and binge eating: testing a serial mediational model.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundMany people with eating disorders often report having suffered some kind of childhood trauma. For this reason, many studies have attempted to explore the mediating factors between traumatic experiences and the development of eating disorders. The aim of our study is to conduct a systematic review of published works on the mediating factors between childhood trauma and the development of eating disorders.
methodThis review was carried out up to 5 December, 2020, using the databases PsycInfo and PubMed, combining the keywords, and applying a set of inclusion and exclusion criteria.
resultsA total of 18 articles were retrieved. After the articles were analyzed, a set of mediating factors between childhood trauma and the development of eating disorders was established, including pathological dissociation, difficulty with emotion self-regulation, body dissatisfaction, negative affect/depression, anxiety, general distress, self-criticism, and alexithymia, among others.
conclusionsIn addition to evaluating trauma in eating disorders, these results highlight the importance of paying special attention to the presence of various possible mediating factors, which must be taken into account in the planning of therapeutic treatment. Identifying symptoms of trauma or eating disorders early on could prevent onset of more severe psychopathology during adulthood.
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