Associations among Eating Disorder Behaviors and Eating Disorder Quality of Life in Adult Women with Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is associated with elevated mortality and psychiatric morbidity (Arcelus, et  al., 2011; Hudson et al., 2007) as well as reduced quality of life (QOL) compared to healthy controls and individuals with other psychiatric conditions (Ágh et al., 2016; Jenkins et al., 2011). Further, some studies have demonstrated that women with AN with a lower body weight have lower QOL ( Bamford et al., 2015;Weigel et al., 2016), although, others have found no association (e.g., Abbate‐Daga et al., 2014).

Source: Psychiatry Research - May 31, 2018 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tyler B. Mason, Stephen A. Wonderlich, Ross D. Crosby, Scott G. Engel, James E. Mitchell, Scott J. Crow, Daniel Le Grange, Kathryn E. Smith, Carol B. Peterson Source Type: research