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Running on empty – a nationwide large-scale examination of compulsive exercise in eating disorders

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Eating Disorders, June 2018
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Title
Running on empty – a nationwide large-scale examination of compulsive exercise in eating disorders
Published in
Journal of Eating Disorders, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s40337-018-0197-z
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Authors

Elin Monell, Johanna Levallius, Emma Forsén Mantilla, Andreas Birgegård

Abstract

Compulsive exercise (CE) has been the neglected "Cinderella" among eating disorder (ED) symptoms, even though it seems to impact severity, treatment and outcome. This prompted a large-scale and systematic examination of the impact of CE in a representative ED sample. CE was examined in over 9000 female and male patients from a clinical ED database (covering out-patient, day and/or residential treatment) with respect to prevalence, ED diagnosis, ED symptoms, clinical features, patient characteristics, and outcome at 1-year follow-up. Relationships between changes in CE behavior and remission were also examined. CE was a transdiagnostic symptom, present in nearly half of all patients (48%). It was associated with greater overall ED pathology, particularly dietary restraint, and negative perfectionism. Initial CE did not impact remission rate, but patients continuing or starting CE during treatment had considerably lower remission rates compared to patients who never engaged in, or ceased with, CE. Results were comparable for females and males. At baseline, there were few differences between patients with and without CE, except a somewhat higher symptom load for patients with CE, and CE did not predict ED outcome. However, how CE developed during treatment to 1-year follow-up considerably impacted remission rates. We strongly recommend CE to be systematically assessed, addressed, and continuously evaluated in all ED patients seeking treatment.

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Unknown 54 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 9 17%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 9%
Researcher 3 6%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 18 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 12 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 11%
Sports and Recreations 4 7%
Social Sciences 3 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 21 39%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 July 2019.
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#1,226,438
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#84
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#28,582
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Eating Disorders
#1
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