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Published on: May 10, 2022
Low social interactions in eating disorder patients in childhood and adulthood: a multi-centre European case control
Isabel Krug1, Eva Penelo, Fernando Fernandez-Aranda
1Eating Disorders Unit and SGDP Research Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, UK. isabel.1.krug@kcl.ac.uk
Abstract:
The objective of this article was to examine lifestyle behaviours in eating disorder (ED) patients and healthy controls. A total of 801 ED patients and 727 healthy controls from five European countries completed the questions related to lifestyle behaviours of the Cross-Cultural Questionnaire (CCQ). For children, the ED sample exhibited more solitary activities (rigorously doing homework [p<0.001] and watching TV [p<0.05] and less socializing with friends [p<0.05]) than the healthy control group and this continued in adulthood. There were minimal differences across ED sub-diagnoses and various cross-cultural differences emerged. Reduced social activities may be an important risk and maintaining factor for ED symptomatology.
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