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A Computer-Based Platform for Aiding Clinicians in Eating Disorder Analysis and Diagnosis
Published on: May 10, 2022
Confirmation among college women: the eating disorders not otherwise specified diagnostic profile
Alan Schwitzer1, Tammy Hatfield, Angela R Jones
1Educational Leadership and Counseling, College of Education, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529-0157, USA. aschwitz@odu.edu
Unlabelled:
Previously, the researchers proposed and tested a diagnostic framework for women with eating-related concerns who seek college health and mental health treatment. The framework emphasized moderate problems characterized by frequent binging, occasional purging, and frequent exercise; rumination; body image and self-esteem concerns; ambivalence about help seeking; and developmental themes. Several questions remained about the framework's generalizability beyond women in treatment.
Objective:
In the current study, the authors provide new support for the framework's generalizability to college women with clinically significant eating concerns who do not seek treatment.
Participants And Methods:
Female students (N = 112) completed a screening instrument providing descriptive and comparative data about primary symptoms, associated features, and help seeking.
Results:
Results suggested that the framework is specific to women with eating problems and does not suffer the pitfalls of applying over-generally to all college women or all female patients and clients.
Conclusions:
Implications for practice, research limitations, and remaining questions are discussed.
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