Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown in Eating Disorders: A Multicentre Collaborative International Study.

Background: The COVID-19 lockdown has had a significant impact on mental health. Patients with eating disorders (ED) have been particularly vulnerable.

Aims: (1) To explore changes in eating-related symptoms and general psychopathology during lockdown in patients with an ED from various European and Asian countries; and (2) to assess differences related to diagnostic ED subtypes, age, and geography.

Association of executive function problems and disordered eating behaviours in teens with type 1 diabetes.

Aim: To explore cross-sectional associations between executive function problems and disordered eating behaviours in teens with type 1 diabetes.

Methods: Executive function was assessed by the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF), self-report and parent proxy-report versions. Scores ≥60 (on Global Executive Composite, Behavioral Regulation Index, Metacognition Index or clinical scales) indicated problems with executive function.

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: Psychopathological similarities and differences in comparison to anorexia nervosa and the general population.

Introduction: Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) categorises patients with selective and/or restrictive eating patterns in the absence of distorted cognition concerning weight, food, and body image.

Objective: To examine the sociodemographic and clinical profile of patients with ARFID in comparison to those with anorexia nervosa (AN) and to a non-clinical group (NCG).

Method: A descriptive, observational, comparative study made up of three groups (ARFID, AN and NCG).

Alternatives to inpatient treatment in adolescents with anorexia nervosa: Effectiveness and characteristics of a new intensive model of day patient treatment.

Introduction: Inpatient Treatment (IT) is the treatment of choice for moderate or severely ill adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa (AN). Nevertheless, it is expensive, and the risk for relapse or readmissions is high. A less costly alternative to IT is Day Patient Treatment (DP), which may also help to avoid relapses and readmissions because facilitates transition from hospital to community treatment.

[Cardiovascular risk factors, cardiovascular risk and quality of life in patients with a severe mental disorder].

Aim: To determine the cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF), level of cardiovascular risk (CVR) and to analyse the relationship between CVR and quality of life in patients with severe mental illness (SMI).

Design Of Study: Cross sectional study.

Setting: Mental Health Service, Consorci Hospitalari de Vic (Barcelona).