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ArticleEating disorders

The need for more inclusive measurement to advance equity in eating disorders prevention.

Tricia Alexander, C Blair Burnette, Hannah Cory, Safiya McHale, Melissa Simone

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Article in Eating disorders. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Tricia AlexanderDivision of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
C Blair BurnetteDivision of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5003-5856
Hannah CoryDivision of Epidemiology & Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Safiya McHaleDepartment of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA.
Melissa SimoneDepartment of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA.

Funding

Research on Eating and Activity for Community Health (REACH): An Applied Epidemiology Training Program to Improve Weight-Related Health in Youth and Families from Diverse CommunitiesT32HL150452 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI NEUMARK-SZTAINER, DIANNE R · 2020 to 2024
$2.0M
Population-Specific Eating Disorder Risk Factors in Sexual Minority WomenR00MD015770 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI SIMONE, MELISSA · 2023 to 2025
$733k
Population-Specific Eating Disorder Risk Factors in Sexual Minority WomenK99MD015770 · NIMHD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI SIMONE, MELISSA · 2021 to 2022
$245k
NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL150452NIMHD NIH HHS K99 MD015770NIMHD NIH HHS R00 MD015770
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Eating disorder (ED) research and practice have been shaped by prevailing stereotypes about who EDs are most likely to affect. Subsequently, the field has prioritized the needs and concerns of affluent, cisgender, heterosexual, white girls and women to the exclusion of others, especially people marginalized based on their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and/or gender identity. However, EDs exist across diverse groups and actually occur with elevated prevalence in several marginalized groups. Growing research points to differences in the drivers of EDs in such groups (e.g. desire to attain the curvy rather than thin ideal; dietary restraint due to food insecurity rather than weight/shape concerns), yet tools typically used for screening and intervention evaluation do not capture eating pathology driven by such factors. In this commentary, we describe gaps in existing ED assessment tools and argue these gaps likely underestimate EDs among marginalized groups, bias who is invited, participates in, and benefits from ED prevention programs, and obscure potential group differences in the efficacy of such programs. We also discuss the potential of these ramifications to exacerbate inequities in EDs. Finally, we outline recommendations to overcome existing gaps in measurement and, consequently, advance equity in the realm of ED prevention.

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Feeding and Eating DisordersHealth EquityHumans

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PMID38488765
PMCPMC11401964

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