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Prior use of extreme weight‐control behaviors in a community sample of women with binge eating disorder or subthreshold binge eating disorder: A descriptive study
Author(s) -
Mond Jonathan M.,
Peterson Carol B.,
Hay Phillipa J.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
international journal of eating disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.785
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1098-108X
pISSN - 0276-3478
DOI - 10.1002/eat.20707
Subject(s) - binge eating , weight control , psychology , binge eating disorder , eating disorders , longitudinal study , perspective (graphical) , bulimia nervosa , psychiatry , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , obesity , endocrinology , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science
Objective and Method The prior occurrence of regular extreme weight‐control behaviors was examined in a community sample of women ( n = 27) with binge eating disorder (BED) or subthreshold BED. Results Approximately two thirds of participants (65.4%) reported the prior use of either purging at least weekly or nonpurging behaviors three or more times per week, for a period of 3 months or more, whereas 38.5% of participants reported either purging at least twice weekly or nonpurging behaviors five or more times per week. Comparatively few participants (11.1%) had ever met formal diagnostic criteria for BN. Discussion Considerable overlap be‐tween disorders characterized by binge eating in the absence of extreme weight‐control behaviors and those characterized by extreme weight‐control behaviors in the absence of binge eating may be apparent when a longitudinal perspective is taken. Caution needs to be exercised in drawing conclusions concerning the extent of this overlap based on any one operational definition of the term “regular extreme weight‐control behaviors”. © 2009 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Eat Disord 2010