De Bolle M, De Clercq B, Pham-Scottez A, Mels S, Rolland JP, Guelfi JD, et al. In the latter case, it is important to monitor those personality traits to enable administration of a parallel course of treatment. With regard to the results obtained using different forms of treatment, some patients react favorably to conventional therapies focusing on eating habits, whereas others with certain personality traits do not respond to such treatment. The influence of heritability, neuroticism, maternal warmth and media use on disordered eating behaviors: a prospective analysis of twins. Ferguson CJ, Muãoz ME, Winegard B, Winegard B. Other factors, both genetic and personality-based, must therefore also be involved in the generation of such disorders. but the fact remains that not all Western adolescent females develop an ED despite their apparent exposure to the same social pressures. Eating disorder NOS (EDNOS): an example of the troublesome “not otherwise specified” (NOS) category in DSM-IV. especially among young women and adolescent girls, 8 8. The prevalence and correlates of eating disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Hudson JI, Hiripi E, Pope H Jr, Kessler RC. The incidence rate of EDs is much higher in Western society, 7 7. The causes of the disorder can certainly be found at least partially in social factors. Leicester: British Psychological Society 2004. Eating disorders: core interventions in the treatment and management of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders.
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health. The treatments applied have had mixed results, with symptoms persisting unabated in some patients.
Over the last 30 years, gradual progress has been made in our understanding of how EDs can be prevented and treated however, the origins of this type of disorder are still unclear. The measurement of impairment due to eating disorder psychopathology. Bohn K, Doll HA, Cooper Z, O’Connor M, Palmer RL, Fairburn CG. Furthermore, not only do EDs affect sufferers’ physical health, but they can also seriously damage psychosocial functioning. Treatment of patients with eating disorders, third edition. For example, the suicide rate for women with AN is 12 times higher than the rate for women of the same age not suffering from AN. Mortality rates among women suffering from EDs in general and from anorexia nervosa (AN) in particular are higher than for any other psychological disorder. Academy for eating disorders position paper: eating disorders are serious mental illnesses. Klump KL, Bulik CM, Kaye WH, Treasure J, Tyson E. Personality disorders eating disorders diagnosis and classification tests/interviews psychometric propertiesĮating disorders (EDs) currently constitute one of the most serious mental health problems in Western society. Prevention and treatment programs for ED could benefit from focusing on the abovementioned personality profiles. Two personality subtypes were identified in which the risk of EDs was six times higher (the undercontrolled group) and almost 16 times higher (the overcontrolled group). Participants in the undercontrolled group had a risk of suffering from an ED 6.517 times higher than those in the high-functioning group (p = 0.019 odds ratio = 6.517), while those in the overcontrolled subgroup had a risk of ED 15.972 times higher than those in the high-functioning group. A logistic regression model was then created. A cluster analysis was carried out to divide the participants into three groups based on their scores in the Big Five personality dimensions.
The Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) and the Eating Disorder Inventory 2 (EDI-2) were administered to 69 patients diagnosed as suffering from EDs (cases) and 89 people free of any ED symptoms (control group). To establish whether the risk of suffering from an eating disorder (ED) is associated with the high-functioning, undercontrolled, or overcontrolled personality prototype groups.