One year in: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on help-seeking behaviors among youth experiencing eating disorders and their caregivers

We analyzed service utilization data from the National Eating Disorder Information Centre's (NEDIC) toll-free helpline/chat to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on help-seeking behaviors among youth with disordered eating and their caregivers. The number of contacts from affected youth...

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Autores principales: Richardson, Candice, Phillips, Suzanne, Paslakis, Georgios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8572344/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34758404
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114263
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description We analyzed service utilization data from the National Eating Disorder Information Centre's (NEDIC) toll-free helpline/chat to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on help-seeking behaviors among youth with disordered eating and their caregivers. The number of contacts from affected youth (n = 650) and caregivers (n = 823) was significantly higher in the pandemic year than 2018 and 2019. The proportion of affected youth reporting dieting/restriction, perfectionism, and weight pre-occupation was significantly higher during the pandemic than in 2018 and 2019. Our findings lend support to accounts from expert clinicians reporting an increase in youth presenting with eating disordered symptoms during the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-85723442021-11-08 One year in: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on help-seeking behaviors among youth experiencing eating disorders and their caregivers Richardson, Candice Phillips, Suzanne Paslakis, Georgios Psychiatry Res Short Communication We analyzed service utilization data from the National Eating Disorder Information Centre's (NEDIC) toll-free helpline/chat to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on help-seeking behaviors among youth with disordered eating and their caregivers. The number of contacts from affected youth (n = 650) and caregivers (n = 823) was significantly higher in the pandemic year than 2018 and 2019. The proportion of affected youth reporting dieting/restriction, perfectionism, and weight pre-occupation was significantly higher during the pandemic than in 2018 and 2019. Our findings lend support to accounts from expert clinicians reporting an increase in youth presenting with eating disordered symptoms during the pandemic. Elsevier B.V. 2021-12 2021-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8572344/ /pubmed/34758404 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114263 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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