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The prevalence of mental health outcomes among eating disorder patients during the COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis.
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- An umbrella review of the prevalence of depression during the COVID-19 pandemic: Call to action for post-COVID-19 at the global level.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Estimation of the prevalence of anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: A meta-analysis of meta-analyses.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
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- COVID-19 and common mental health symptoms in the early phase of the pandemic: An umbrella review of the evidence.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
- COVID-19-related changes in eating disorder pathology, emotional and binge eating and need for care: a systematic review with frequentist and Bayesian meta-analyses.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2023Pooled it
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- Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine for Cardiovascular Disease Management in Mental Healthcare: A Literature Review.Cureus · 2026Review
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on eating disorder symptoms and COVID-19-related stress.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- College students' depression and body image: Unraveling the Link.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Mediating role of exercise in the relationship between body dissatisfaction and overeating using structural equation modeling.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A Brief Online Intervention Based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for a Reduction in Binge-Eating Symptoms and Eating Pathology.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Do changes in eating behaviors signal rising mental health concerns among Saudi high schoolers?BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Admission rates and clinical profiles of children and youth with eating disorders treated as inpatients before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in a German university hospital.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- The Needs of School Professionals for Eating Disorder Prevention in Australian Schools: A Mixed-Methods Survey.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- COVID-19: Lessons on malnutrition, nutritional care and public health from the ESPEN-WHO Europe call for papers.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2022Article
- Relationship between body dissatisfaction, insufficient physical activity, and disordered eating behaviors among university students in southern China.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Depressive Symptoms, Including Clinical and Subthreshold Levels, and Eating Behaviors in First-Year University Students.Complex psychiatryArticle
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Abstract
BACKGROUND &
aimsPatients with eating disorders (ED) are known to suffer from various psychological morbidities thus they are expected to be negatively impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our meta-analysis aims to evaluate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the pooled prevalence of psychological comorbidities in ED patients.
methodsPubmed, Scopus, GoogleScholar, and medRxiv were searched using the keywords COVID19 and Eating Disorders and their related MeSH terms. The articles were included if they contained patients with diagnosed EDs and having evaluated their mental health disturbances during the COVID-19 pandemic. The quality of the included studies was assessed using the "assessing risk of bias in prevalence studies" tool. The heterogeneity was assessed using Cochrane Q and I2 heterogeneity statistics.
resultsA total of 13 articles have been included in this meta-analysis with a sample size of 3056. The pooled prevalence of ED patients who experienced worsening of ED symptoms was 57% (95%CI: 36%-76%), anxiety was 64% (95%CI: 39%-78%), and depression was 55% (95%CI: 12%-87%) during the pandemic.
conclusionsThis meta-analysis provides evidence supporting an increase in the pooled prevalence of mental health disorders among patients suffering from EDs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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