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Appalachia is uniquely impacted by healthcare disparities. Outpatient dropout rates remain a significant barrier for individuals necessitating specialty eating disorder (ED) treatment. We explored factors impacting patient continuation in specialty outpatient care for EDs. Participants (=138; 89.9% female) were patients with EDs attending specialty outpatient treatment in a geographically isolated, under-resourced Appalachian community. Patient dropout rate was 26.8%. Dropout rates did not significantly differ across any sociocultural factors except patient age and BMI; patients who discontinued were older and had higher BMIs at intake, perhaps due to longer duration of illness or treatment-related misconceptions. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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Front Public Health
September 2025
Integrated Care Management Center, Outpatient Department, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Objective: This study aims to analyze the temporal trends in the incidence and prevalence of anorexia nervosa (AN) in China from 1992 to 2021, focusing on age, period, and cohort effects, in order to provide evidence for the prevention and control of anxiety-related disorders.
Methods: Data on the incidence and prevalence of anorexia nervosa in China were obtained from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021. Joinpoint regression analysis was employed to assess trends over time, while an age-period-cohort (APC) model was used to estimate the net effects of age, period, and cohort variables.
Int J Eat Disord
September 2025
Department of Emergency Psychiatry and Acute Care, Lapeyronie Hospital, Montpellier, France.
Objective: This study compared overvaluation of weight and shape (OWS), drive for thinness (DT), and their combination (OWS-DT) as alternative severity classifications for anorexia nervosa (AN) to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) severity classification.
Method: 312 AN treatment-seeking outpatients (mean age = 26.8, SD = 10.
J Eat Disord
September 2025
Center for Nutrition and Therapy (NuT), University of Applied Sciences Muenster, Corrensstraße 25, 48149, Muenster, Germany.
Eating disorders are primarily associated with women and an obsession with thinness. Recent research and social media content show that men are also concerned about their body image, striving for a muscular and athletic physique. To investigate eating disorder tendencies among male content creators with a mesomorphic body type (N = 26), a social media analysis was conducted on Instagram and TikTok over four weeks.
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September 2025
Luciano Feijão College, Sobral, Ceará, Brazil.
Purpose: To clinically validate the nursing diagnosis "Inadequate Nutritional Intake" based on elements identified within a specific situation theory framework in the context of children with cancer.
Methods: This is a diagnostic accuracy study following the Standards for Reporting Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) protocol. Specifically, it refers to the clinical validation phase of the nursing diagnosis Inadequate nutritional intake, using a cross-sectional design.
Turk J Pediatr
September 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Türkiye.
Background: With the development of technology, easier access to the internet and its excessive use have led to problematic internet use (PIU). The prevalence of PIU and its association with lifestyle behaviors in adolescents have become subjects of increasing academic interest. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of PIU among Turkish high school students and to investigate its association with sleep, physical activity and dietary habits.
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