Doctors Without Borders, Amsterdam, Holland. Noma Project, Sokoto, Nigeria.
Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Otolaryngology, University Teaching Hospital Kigali, University of Rwanda, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda.
Anorexia nervosa is the most deadly mental disorder. Early detection is crucial. Most patients engage in compulsive exercise, often in an early stage. Compulsive exercise has a deleterious impact on t...
There remains a lack of consensus around nosology for compulsive exercise (CE). Although widely observed in eating disorders (ED), CE shares theoretical overlap with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD...
Two hundred and eighty one adults with mental health symptoms, dieting, and exercise behaviour completed measures of OCD, CE, and disordered eating symptoms. Regression and Receiver Operating Characte...
CE assessment was poor at predicting threshold OCD symptoms, probable Anorexia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder and moderate at detecting probable disordered eating and Bulimia Nervosa. Associations...
Results indicate that excessive exercise might represent a distinct disorder, with some shared traits across CE, OCD and ED symptoms. Findings question the utility of adaptation of OCD diagnostic crit...
The role of anxiety as a risk factor for compulsive exercise elements among adolescents is unclear. Intolerance of uncertainty (IU), which is a risk feature for anxiety and eating disorders, may be an...
A total of 201 adolescent girls and 207 adolescent boys completed the following questionnaires: Eating Disorder Inventory-3, Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 (IUS-12), a brief version of the State-...
The hierarchical regression analyses showed that the interaction between IUS-Prospective and gender emerged as a significant predictor of CET-Avoidance and CET-Weight control exercise beyond symptoms ...
These findings suggest that prospective IU may contribute towards obsessive-compulsive attitudes towards exercise among adolescent population, specifically among boys....
Little is known about psychosocial variables that may be differentially associated with compulsive exercise versus adaptive exercise. The current study simultaneously examined associations of exercise...
A total of 446 individuals (50.2 % female) completed reports of compulsive exercise, adaptive exercise, body dissatisfaction, exercise identity, and anxiety via an online survey. Multiple linear regre...
Exercise identity, body dissatisfaction, and anxiety were all significantly associated with compulsive exercise. Only exercise identity and anxiety were significantly associated with adaptive exercise...
Exercise identity emerged as the strongest predictor of both compulsive and adaptive exercise. The simultaneous presence of exercise identity, body dissatisfaction, and anxiety may contribute to high ...
Better understanding of compulsive exercise is needed in sports medicine. Whilst compulsive exercise may impact mental health, the limited research exploring the relationship between compulsive exerci...
Cross-sectional observational study....
Australian recreational exercisers and athletes (N = 1157; M...
After adjustment for eating disorder symptoms and sporting level, compulsive exercise was associated with increased risk of clinically-significant anxiety, depression, and stress symptoms. Compulsive ...
Results suggest that compulsive exercise is uniquely associated with a range of psychosocial and mental health outcomes. Results support the need to improve identification and treatment of compulsive ...
Body image dissatisfaction and compulsive exercise behaviors are two main factors in recognizing an eating disorder within active individuals. By examining types of exercise and trends within the gene...
We employed a cross-sectional study to examine our patient's exercise behaviors, compulsive exercise traits, and body image dissatisfaction. A total of 96 (35 males, 61 females) physically active adul...
The average scores between males and females on the BCQ and OEQ were not statistically different from one another. Strength and aerobic training did not correlate with BCQ scores. There was no correla...
Our findings demonstrate the importance of addressing body image dissatisfaction for all populations, regardless of gender. Athletic trainers can utilize mixed-method training to help at-risk individu...
The similarities and differences between orthorexia nervosa symptoms (ONs) and the symptoms and correlates of eating disorders listed in the DSM-5 need to be elucidated. ONs were examined in a volunte...
Participants were 561 adult volunteers (93 men, 17.09%) aged 19-72 (M = 32.7 ± 11), recruited via social media networks. Participants self-reported on the following measures online: Düsseldorf Orthore...
A theoretical model of the connections between the study variables was tested via SEM and confirmed. The profiles of participants with high, average and low levels of ONs were compared. Participants w...
High levels of ONs are related to disordered eating attitudes and behaviors, as well as to emotional and behavioral correlates of eating disorders. It is unclear to what extent these ONs are distingui...
Level III, case-control analytic study....
Compulsive exercise (CE) is a core symptom of eating disorders (EDs) that is common in undergraduate men and women. Importantly, CE is a multidimensional construct, and certain facets of CE (i.e., exe...
Perfectionism has a strong association with eating disorders. Research in non-clinical adults has suggested that perfectionism has both direct and indirect effects on eating disorder symptoms, and tha...
Compulsive exercise (CE) has been proposed as one of the maladaptive elements that might concur to developing and maintaining an eating disorder (ED), even if no conclusive consensus is yet available....
Two different studies are performed. In the first study, we evaluate the psychometric properties of the Italian CET with a sample of 272 individuals (157 with different diagnoses of ED). In the second...
The CET shows optimal psychometric proprieties, and a five-factors structure. CE is linked to more severe specific psychopathology in ED patients, including increased thoughts of restraint and concern...
The specific role of CE is discussed according to its connections with a core psychopathological element like weight phobia. Specific profiles of CE emerged for each clinical subgroup, and they corrob...