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ArticleJournal of eating disorders2026

Letter to the Editor: "It's never ending and overwhelmingly difficult": a mixed-methods survey of the impact of caregiving for a loved one with an eating disorder in New Zealand.

Amélie Blaquière, J Bruno Debruille

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Article in Journal of eating disorders, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors.

Amélie BlaquièreMental Health Program, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Douglas Research Centre, McGill University, 6875, LaSalle blvd, Montréal, QC, H4H 1R3, Canada. amelie.blaquiere@mail.mcgill.ca.
J Bruno DebruilleMental Health Program, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Douglas Research Centre, McGill University, 6875, LaSalle blvd, Montréal, QC, H4H 1R3, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This correspondence responds to Donkin et al. [1], which examined the psychological burden of caregiving for individuals with eating disorders (EDs) in New Zealand (NZ). While the study makes an important contribution by providing much-needed NZ-specific evidence on caregiver distress, we highlight two considerations that may affect the interpretation and presentation of the findings. First, the normative reference group used to benchmark caregiver wellbeing on the DASS-21 differs from the caregiver sample in both time period and demographic composition, limiting the comparability of the normative analysis. Second, we argue that the study's sole figure gives visual prominence to descriptive findings while the primary inferential results are presented only in text and tables. We also note that reporting the underlying sample size would improve the interpretability of the figure. These refinements would strengthen the clarity and evidential presentation of an important contribution to the eating disorder caregiving literature.

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Caregiver burdenCaregivingDASS-21Eating disordersNew ZealandNormative dataPsychological distress

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PMID42811369
PMCPMC13625487

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