Where does purging disorder lie on the symptomatologic and personality continuum when compared to other eating disorder subtypes?

OBJECTIVES: To assess the clinical significance and distinctiveness of purging disorder (PD) from other eating disorder (ED) diagnoses. METHOD: Participants included 3127 women consecutively admitted to an ED treatment centre (246 PD, 465 anorexia nervosa restrictive [AN-R], 327 AN-binge purging [AN...

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Autores: Krug, Isabel|||0000-0002-5275-3595, Giles, Sarah, Granero, Roser|||0000-0001-6308-3198, Agüera, Zaida|||0000-0003-4453-4939, Sánchez Díaz, Isabel María|||0000-0001-5874-8204, Sánchez González, Jéssica|||0000-0002-9327-0100, Jiménez Murcia, Susana|||0000-0002-3596-8033, Fernández Aranda, Fernando|||0000-0002-2968-9898
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:301924
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/301924
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1002/erv.2872
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anorexia Nervosa/diagnosis
Atypical anorexia
Binge-Eating Disorder/diagnosis
Bulimia Nervosa/diagnosis
Feeding and Eating Disorders/diagnosis
Female
Humans
OSFED
Personality
Purging disorder
Unspecified feeding or eating disorders
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Sumario:OBJECTIVES: To assess the clinical significance and distinctiveness of purging disorder (PD) from other eating disorder (ED) diagnoses. METHOD: Participants included 3127 women consecutively admitted to an ED treatment centre (246 PD, 465 anorexia nervosa restrictive [AN-R], 327 AN-binge purging [AN-BP], 1436 bulimia nervosa [BN], 360 binge eating disorder [BED], 177 atypical AN and 116 unspecified feeding or eating disorder [UFED]) who were diagnosed according to DSM-5 criteria. Additionally, 822 control participants were recruited from the community. All participants completed measures assessing ED symptoms (EDI-2), general psychopathology (SCL-90-R) and personality (TCI-R). RESULTS: Patients with PD, when compared to controls, scored significantly higher on the EDI-2 and SCL-90-R, and most TCI-R dimensions. Most of the significant differences between PD and the other ED diagnoses emerged between PD and AN-R, followed by Atypical-AN, UFED, AN-BP and BED, with patients with PD typically reporting higher scores on the EDI-2 and SCL-90-R subscales. Significant differences between PD and BN were also present, but to a lesser extent. The findings for personality varied amongst the different ED diagnoses. CONCLUSIONS: PD is a clinically significant disorder, which seems to be more similar to BN than it is to AN and the other ED subtypes.