ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2022
Eating disturbances in eating disorders and in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders: a preliminary study.
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- A scoping review of the relationship between autistic traits and eating disorders: exploring the secondary impact of eating disorders and co-occurring psychiatric diagnoses.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Long-term follow-up study of low-weight avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder and childhood-onset anorexia nervosa: comparison of autistic eating behaviours.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Borderline personality disorder and eating disorders are characterized by specific patterns of autistic traits, post-traumatic and catatonic symptoms.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
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- Social camouflaging of autistic traits is associated with more severe symptoms among subjects with feeding and eating disorders.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- "I Know It's Very Spectrum-y": Autistic Women Reflect on Sensory Aspects of Food and Eating.Autism in adulthood · 2025Article
- Exploring the links between sensory sensitivity, autistic traits and autism-related eating behaviours in a sample of adult women with eating disorders.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Autistic traits, sensory sensitivity and eating disturbances in a sample of young adults referring to a generalized mental health clinic.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2024Article
- Assessment Methods for Problematic Eating Behaviors in Children and Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Problematic eating behaviours of autistic women-A scoping review.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeThe relationship between autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and eating disorders (EDs) has been widely studied in the last decades. We aimed to directly compare patients with EDs, individuals with high-functioning ASDs (HF-ASDs) and healthy controls (HC) at measures detecting: (1) symptoms of eating disorders, (2) eating disturbances known to be characteristic of autism.
methodsThirty-four patients with EDs, 34 individuals with HF-ASDs and 35 HC, all females, completed the eating attitude test (EAT-26) and the Swedish eating assessment for autism spectrum disorders (SWEAA), two self-report questionnaires assessing, respectively, symptoms and concerns characteristic of eating disorders and ASD-related eating disturbances.
resultsAt the EAT-26, patients with EDs scored significantly higher than individuals with HF-ASDs, and both of them scored higher than HC (p < 0.05, η
conclusionIndividuals with HF-ASDs did not seem to reach the same level of EDs symptomatology as patients with EDs. Patients with EDs did not seem to present a different amount of autistic-eating behaviours than subjects with HF-ASDs. Patients with EDs and individuals with HF-ASDs scored higher than HC at both scales. Our results give further preliminary evidence of the overlap between autistic traits and EDs symptomatology, and should be taken into account in the definition of a shared model between EDs and ASDs. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II; Evidence obtained from controlled trial without randomization.
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