Orthorexia Nervosa: over concern or obsession about healthy food?
Dieting
Eating features
Obsessive–compulsive features
Orthorexia Nervosa
Worry
Journal
Eating and weight disorders : EWD
ISSN: 1590-1262
Titre abrégé: Eat Weight Disord
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9707113
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
received:
10
08
2020
accepted:
13
01
2021
pubmed:
11
2
2021
medline:
23
11
2021
entrez:
10
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Orthorexia Nervosa is characterized by specific behaviors frequently related to other psychopathological conditions, such as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Eating Disorders (EDs). Whereas ON can mainly be described as an excessive concern regarding healthy food, the study's principal aim was to investigate if ON could be considered a condition related and differentiated from worry, other than OCD, EDs, perfectionism, anxiety, and depression. To achieve these aims, 302 individuals from the general population were enrolled and were divided into two groups named "High EHQ" and "Low EHQ", based on their Eating Habits Questionnaire's score (EHQ-21). Correlations of ON with EDs and non-adaptive perfectionism constructs emerged independently from Obsessive-Compulsive (OC) symptoms, and the same pattern was observed when comparing the High and the Low EHQ groups. The two groups also differ in the worry anxiety and depression constructs and are not affected by OC symptoms removal. Our results confirm a relationship between ON with the typical ED, perfectionistic, anxious, and depressive symptomatology, mainly when the OC features are controlled; moreover, worry constructs could be considered characteristic of the ON phenomenology. This study does not entirely exclude the relationship with obsessive and compulsive characteristics, which could be associated with or serve as a mediator of the orthorexic behavior. Future research could explore the potential mediating or collateral role of OC symptoms. Level III, evidence obtained from well-designed cohort or case-control analytic studies.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33566324
doi: 10.1007/s40519-021-01110-x
pii: 10.1007/s40519-021-01110-x
pmc: PMC8602217
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2577-2588Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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