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Life Events in the Etiopathogenesis and Maintenance of Restrictive Eating Disorders in Adolescence

Life events (traumatic and protective) may be critical factors associated with eating disorders and their severity. To date, there is little literature concerning the role of life events in adolescence. The main goal of this study was to explore in a sample of adolescent patients with restrictive ea...

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Autores principales: Baradel, Giorgia, Pratile, Diletta Cristina, Orlandi, Marika, Vecchio, Arianna, Casini, Erica, De Giorgis, Valentina, Borgatti, Renato, Mensi, Martina Maria
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9955930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36832506
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10020376
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author Baradel, Giorgia
Pratile, Diletta Cristina
Orlandi, Marika
Vecchio, Arianna
Casini, Erica
De Giorgis, Valentina
Borgatti, Renato
Mensi, Martina Maria
author_facet Baradel, Giorgia
Pratile, Diletta Cristina
Orlandi, Marika
Vecchio, Arianna
Casini, Erica
De Giorgis, Valentina
Borgatti, Renato
Mensi, Martina Maria
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description Life events (traumatic and protective) may be critical factors associated with eating disorders and their severity. To date, there is little literature concerning the role of life events in adolescence. The main goal of this study was to explore in a sample of adolescent patients with restrictive eating disorders (REDs) the presence of life events in the year before enrolment and to characterize them according to timing. Furthermore, we investigated correlations between REDs severity and the presence of life events. In total, 33 adolescents completed the EDI-3 questionnaire to assess RED severity using EDRC (Eating Disorder Risk Composite), GPMC (General Psychological Maladjustment Composite), and the Coddington Life Events Scales—Adolescent (CLES-A) questionnaires to define the presence of life events in the last year. Of these, 87.88% reported a life event in the past year. A significant association emerged between elevated clinical GPMC and the presence of traumatic events: patients who had experienced at least one traumatic life event in the year before enrolment presented higher clinically elevated GPMC compared to patients who had not. These results suggest that obtaining early information about traumatic events in clinical practice may help prevent the occurrence of new events and improve patient outcomes.
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spelling pubmed-99559302023-02-25 Life Events in the Etiopathogenesis and Maintenance of Restrictive Eating Disorders in Adolescence Baradel, Giorgia Pratile, Diletta Cristina Orlandi, Marika Vecchio, Arianna Casini, Erica De Giorgis, Valentina Borgatti, Renato Mensi, Martina Maria Children (Basel) Article Life events (traumatic and protective) may be critical factors associated with eating disorders and their severity. To date, there is little literature concerning the role of life events in adolescence. The main goal of this study was to explore in a sample of adolescent patients with restrictive eating disorders (REDs) the presence of life events in the year before enrolment and to characterize them according to timing. Furthermore, we investigated correlations between REDs severity and the presence of life events. In total, 33 adolescents completed the EDI-3 questionnaire to assess RED severity using EDRC (Eating Disorder Risk Composite), GPMC (General Psychological Maladjustment Composite), and the Coddington Life Events Scales—Adolescent (CLES-A) questionnaires to define the presence of life events in the last year. Of these, 87.88% reported a life event in the past year. A significant association emerged between elevated clinical GPMC and the presence of traumatic events: patients who had experienced at least one traumatic life event in the year before enrolment presented higher clinically elevated GPMC compared to patients who had not. These results suggest that obtaining early information about traumatic events in clinical practice may help prevent the occurrence of new events and improve patient outcomes. MDPI 2023-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9955930/ /pubmed/36832506 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10020376 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Baradel, Giorgia
Pratile, Diletta Cristina
Orlandi, Marika
Vecchio, Arianna
Casini, Erica
De Giorgis, Valentina
Borgatti, Renato
Mensi, Martina Maria
Life Events in the Etiopathogenesis and Maintenance of Restrictive Eating Disorders in Adolescence
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title_fullStr Life Events in the Etiopathogenesis and Maintenance of Restrictive Eating Disorders in Adolescence
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title_sort life events in the etiopathogenesis and maintenance of restrictive eating disorders in adolescence
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9955930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36832506
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children10020376
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