Pro-eating disorder search patterns: the possible influence of celebrity eating disorder stories in the media

Pro eating disorder websites often contain celebrity-focused content (e.g., images) used as thinspiration to engage in unhealthy eating disorder behaviours. The current study was conducted to examine whether news media stories covering eating disorder disclosures of celebrities corresponded with inc...

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Autores principales: Lewis, Stephen P., Klauninger, Laura, Marcincinova, Ivana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26941955
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-016-0094-2
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description Pro eating disorder websites often contain celebrity-focused content (e.g., images) used as thinspiration to engage in unhealthy eating disorder behaviours. The current study was conducted to examine whether news media stories covering eating disorder disclosures of celebrities corresponded with increases in Internet searches for pro eating disorder material. Results indicated that search volumes for pro eating disorder terms spiked in the month immediately following such news coverage but only for particularly high-profile celebrities. Hence, there may be utility in providing recovery-oriented resources within the search results for pro-eating disorder Internet searches and within news stories of this nature.
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spelling pubmed-47763732016-03-04 Pro-eating disorder search patterns: the possible influence of celebrity eating disorder stories in the media Lewis, Stephen P. Klauninger, Laura Marcincinova, Ivana J Eat Disord Letter to the Editor Pro eating disorder websites often contain celebrity-focused content (e.g., images) used as thinspiration to engage in unhealthy eating disorder behaviours. The current study was conducted to examine whether news media stories covering eating disorder disclosures of celebrities corresponded with increases in Internet searches for pro eating disorder material. Results indicated that search volumes for pro eating disorder terms spiked in the month immediately following such news coverage but only for particularly high-profile celebrities. Hence, there may be utility in providing recovery-oriented resources within the search results for pro-eating disorder Internet searches and within news stories of this nature. BioMed Central 2016-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4776373/ /pubmed/26941955 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40337-016-0094-2 Text en © Lewis et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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