Practitioner eating disorder detection: The influence of health mindset, thin-ideal internalization, orthorexia and gender role.

Aims: The current study sought to determine what factors inhibited psychologists, naturopaths and fitness instructors from detecting an eating disorder (ED), and the discipline differences across these factors.

Methods: Participants of the online study were 115 health practitioners who consisted of 35 psychologists, 50 naturopathic and 30 fitness practitioners. A vignette describing a female experiencing a sub-threshold bulimic variant without purging was presented alongside ED mental health literacy items such as assessing one's ability to detect a problem.

The perceived knowledge, skill and clinical practice of psychologists, naturopaths and fitness instructors when working with eating disorders.

Aims: When it comes to working with eating disorders (EDs), few studies have explored: the clinical practice; service provision barriers; and self-perceptions of knowledge/skill and the ability to detect EDs in practice against measured ability to do so, of common health providers including psychologists, naturopaths and fitness instructors.

Methods: Of the 115 participants, 90.4% were female with a mean age of 40.

Eating disorder mental health literacy: What do psychologists, naturopaths, and fitness instructors know?

At present, there are no known studies investigating the eating disorder mental health literacy (ED-MHL) of common frontline health providers such as psychologists, naturopaths, and fitness instructors. Little research also exists around practitioner knowledge for the spectrum of eating disorders. The current study sought to fill these research gaps and comprised 115 health practitioners who completed an online survey.