While eating disorders are a prevalent psychiatric issue for women, only a moderate amount of literature discussing the implications for pregnancy exists and even less explores how to identify and manage eating disorders in this patient population. This is despite known risks for adverse fetal, birth, and maternal outcomes because of these disorders. To enhance standard assessment practice and facilitate early intervention for the eating disordered patient, a general obstetrics role need not dramatically change to improve outcomes for mother and child.
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Front Psychol
December 2024
Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Eating disorders comprise an array of mental disturbance with profound implications for individuals' psychophysical and societal well-being. Extensive research has elucidated the role of the Big Five personality traits in explaining individual differences in the risk of eating disorders, overshadowing alternative personality taxonomies, such as the Dark Triad - DT (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Eat Disord
December 2024
School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Background: Biopsychosocial factors have been associated with body satisfaction/dissatisfaction and related body image concerns in adolescence; however, few studies have investigated these relationships in middle childhood, an important developmental phase for body satisfaction. This study investigated relationships between a range of biological (body mass index), psychological (child anxiety/depression, self-esteem, and self-oriented and socially prescribed perfectionism) and sociocultural (mother's body dissatisfaction and comments about child's appearance, father's body dissatisfaction and comments about child's appearance, peer teasing and child's media exposure) factors and body satisfaction cross-sectionally and longitudinally in a sample of 7- and 8-year-old children.
Methods: In this study, participants from the longitudinal Children's Body Image Development Study (in which children had been followed-up annually from 3 years old) were assessed by interview at 7 years old (Time 1; n = 293: girls = 167, boys = 126) and 8 years old (Time 2; n = 222; girls = 126, boys = 96) and their parents completed a questionnaire at each time point.
J Eat Disord
December 2024
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Background: Training gaps regarding the diagnosis and management of eating disorders in diverse populations, including racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender minoritized groups, have not been thoroughly examined.
Objective: This study aimed to examine resident physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding eating disorders in diverse populations, with a focus on areas for improved training and intervention.
Methods: Ninety-two resident physicians in internal medicine, emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry, and surgery at an academic center completed an online survey from 12/1/2020-3/1/2021, which comprised multiple choice and vignette-style open-ended questions to assess knowledge and attitudes toward the management and clinical presentations of eating disorders.
Front Public Health
December 2024
Department of Government and Public Policy, Faculty of Contemporary Studies, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
Introduction: Globally, one in five individuals faces unemployment, which substantially increases their risk of developing mental disorders. Understanding the relationship between unemployment and specific mental health outcomes is crucial for formulating effective policy interventions.
Methods: This study examines the relationship between unemployment and mental disorders across 201 countries from 1970 to 2020.
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol
December 2024
Head, Center for Adolescent Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Professor of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case, 9500 Euclid Avenue, R3, Cleveland, OH, 44195. Electronic address:
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