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A Computer-Based Platform for Aiding Clinicians in Eating Disorder Analysis and Diagnosis
Published on: May 10, 2022
[Comorbidity between eating disorders and anxiety disorders. First part: methodological review]
N T Godart1, F Perdereau, Ph Jeammet
1Département de Psychiatrie, Institut Mutualiste Montsouris, 42, boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France.
Unlabelled:
The objective of our work is to conduct a critical literature review on studies assessing the prevalence of anxiety disorders (AD) in subjects with eating disorders (ED) (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa). In the first part (this paper), we will discuss methodological issues relevant to comorbidity studies between ED and AD.
Method:
We performed a manual and computerised search (Medline) for all published studies on comorbidity between ED and AD, limiting our search to the 1985-2002 period, in order to get sufficiently homogeneous diagnostic criteria for both categories of disorders (most often RDC, DSM III, DSM Ill-R, or DSM IV criteria).
Results:
We review methodological issues regarding population sources, general methodological procedures, diagnostic criteria for ED and AD, diagnostic instruments, age of subjects and course of the eating disorder.
Discussion:
We give implications for reviewing the results of published studies and planing future research.
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