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ArticleJournal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders2021

The Association of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with Impairment Related to Eating Pathology.

Antonia N Kaczkurkin, Wenting Mu, Thea Gallagher, Shari Lieblich, Jeremy Tyler, Edna B Foa

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Article in Journal of obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pathological Eating Patterns in Adults Displaying Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms: A Scoping Review.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Antonia N KaczkurkinUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, 3535 Market St, Suite 600 North, Philadelphia, PA, USA 19104.
Wenting MuUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, 3535 Market St, Suite 600 North, Philadelphia, PA, USA 19104.
Thea GallagherUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, 3535 Market St, Suite 600 North, Philadelphia, PA, USA 19104.
Shari LieblichUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, 3535 Market St, Suite 600 North, Philadelphia, PA, USA 19104.
Jeremy TylerUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, 3535 Market St, Suite 600 North, Philadelphia, PA, USA 19104.
Edna B FoaUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychiatry, Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety, 3535 Market St, Suite 600 North, Philadelphia, PA, USA 19104.
University of Pennsylvania · USVanderbilt University · US

Funding

Delineating neurobiological heterogeneity in internalizing symptoms using machine learning and deep phenotypingR00MH117274 · NIMH · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI KACZKURKIN, ANTONIA · 2019 to 2021
$729k
NIMH NIH HHS R00 MH117274
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prior work has shown a number of similarities between obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and eating disorders such as perfectionism and depressive symptoms. However, distress and impairment due to eating pathology are also highly comorbid with other disorders, which brings into question whether the relationship with eating pathology is unique to OCD. The aims of the current study were 1) to test perfectionism and depression as mediators of the relationship between OCD and eating pathology, and 2) to determine whether OCD is related to greater distress/impairment regarding eating habits, exercising, or feelings about eating, shape, or weight above and beyond other disorders. Symptoms were assessed in 329 treatment-seeking patients in a secondary analysis of a clinical battery. The results showed that depressive symptoms and perfectionism were found to mediate the relationship between OCD and eating pathology. Additionally, a regression analysis showed that OCD, social anxiety disorder, and panic disorder symptoms were associated with eating pathology to a greater extent than other disorders. These results suggest that distress and impairment related to eating habits, exercising, or feelings about eating, shape, or weight are not unique to OCD and that depression and perfectionism may, in part, explain the association between OCD and eating pathology.

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anxietyeating pathologyobsessive-compulsive disorderperfectionismposttraumatic stress disorder

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PMID34660185
PMCPMC8513719
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