ArticlePsychological medicine2023
Prevalence, predictors, and treatment of eating disorders in children: a national study.
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- Protective and risk factors for eating disorders: protocol for a prospective cohort study of children at familial high risk (BLOOM).BMJ open · 2025Article
- Social and individual factors associated with eating disorders risk among adolescents in secondary schools of Sicily (south-Italy).Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2025Article
- Mental health and body image among SGM youth engaged with a digital eating disorder intervention.Journal of LGBT youth · 2024Article
- Views of German mental health professionals on the use of digital mental health interventions for eating disorders: a qualitative interview study.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Role of parental educational level as psychosocial factor in a sample of inpatients with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Increasing prevalence of eating disorders in female adolescents compared with children and young adults: an analysis of real-time administrative data.General psychiatry · 2024Article
- Shifts in naturalistic behaviors induced by early social isolation stress are associated with adult binge-like eating in female rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Eating disorder symptoms among children and adolescents in Germany before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough the prevalence rates of preadolescent eating disorders (EDs) are on the rise, considerably less is known about the correlates and treatment of EDs in this age group. Clarifying the epidemiology of EDs in preadolescent children is a necessary first step to understand the nature and scope of this problem in this age group.
methodsAnalysis of data collected in the ABCD Study release 2.0.1. The ABCD cohort was a population-based sample that consisted of 11 721 children ages 9-10 years. Measures included reports of a lifetime and current mental disorders determined using a diagnostic interview for DSM-5 disorders, sociodemographic factors, and psychiatric treatment utilization.
resultsThe lifetime prevalence of EDs was 0.95%. Being Black, multiracial, having unmarried parents, and family economic insecurity were significant predictors for developing an ED. Among psychiatric conditions, the major depressive disorder was most robustly associated with EDs in both cross-sectional and temporal analyses. Only 47.40% of children who had a lifetime ED received some type of psychiatric treatment. EDs were not a significant predictor of psychiatric treatment utilization after accounting for sex, sexual orientation, parent marital status, economic insecurity, and all other psychiatric diagnoses.
conclusionsDespite increasing prevalence rates of preadolescent EDs, the current findings suggest that the majority of children with these disorders remain untreated. Devoting increased attention and resources to reaching families of children with EDs with the least means for receiving care, and screening for EDs in children with depression, may be important steps for reducing this unmet need.
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