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An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic
Research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively impacting mental health, with rates of eating disorder referrals in particular rising steeply during the pandemic. This study aimed to examine 8-month changes in body image and disordered eating during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore whet...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9343067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35933925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2022.101660 |
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author | Sharpe, Helen Newman, Emily Robertson, Mackenzie D.A. Opitz, Marie-Christine Peebles, Imogen Duffy, Fiona |
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description | Research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively impacting mental health, with rates of eating disorder referrals in particular rising steeply during the pandemic. This study aimed to examine 8-month changes in body image and disordered eating during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore whether any changes were moderated by gender, age, or eating disorder history. This study used a longitudinal survey design in which 587 adults living in the UK (85 % women; mean age = 32.87 years) completed assessments every two months over five timepoints from May/June 2020 to January/February 2021. Measures included body esteem, disordered eating, and psychological distress. Mixed effect models showed small but significant improvements in body esteem and disordered eating symptoms from May/June 2020 to January/February 2021. These improvements were independent of changes in psychological distress, and did not vary by gender, age or eating disorder history. Whilst poor body image and disordered eating may have been elevated in the early period of the pandemic, this study suggests improvements, rather than worsening, of these outcomes over time. This may reflect adaptation to this changing context. |
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spelling | pubmed-93430672022-08-02 An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic Sharpe, Helen Newman, Emily Robertson, Mackenzie D.A. Opitz, Marie-Christine Peebles, Imogen Duffy, Fiona Eat Behav Article Research suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic is negatively impacting mental health, with rates of eating disorder referrals in particular rising steeply during the pandemic. This study aimed to examine 8-month changes in body image and disordered eating during the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore whether any changes were moderated by gender, age, or eating disorder history. This study used a longitudinal survey design in which 587 adults living in the UK (85 % women; mean age = 32.87 years) completed assessments every two months over five timepoints from May/June 2020 to January/February 2021. Measures included body esteem, disordered eating, and psychological distress. Mixed effect models showed small but significant improvements in body esteem and disordered eating symptoms from May/June 2020 to January/February 2021. These improvements were independent of changes in psychological distress, and did not vary by gender, age or eating disorder history. Whilst poor body image and disordered eating may have been elevated in the early period of the pandemic, this study suggests improvements, rather than worsening, of these outcomes over time. This may reflect adaptation to this changing context. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2022-08 2022-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9343067/ /pubmed/35933925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2022.101660 Text en © 2022 The Authors 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Sharpe, Helen Newman, Emily Robertson, Mackenzie D.A. Opitz, Marie-Christine Peebles, Imogen Duffy, Fiona An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title | An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full | An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_fullStr | An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_short | An 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic |
title_sort | 8-month longitudinal exploration of body image and disordered eating in the uk during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9343067/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35933925 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eatbeh.2022.101660 |
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