...., 2015). Interestingly, the use of avoidance as an emotional regulation technique has been associated with self-disgust within AN. McNamara et al. (2016) argue that avoidance of food is associated with the need to control, and participants with eating disorders expressed a desire to avoid high...

...Dieter Declercq; Eshika Kafle; Jade Peters; Sam Raby; Dave Chawner; James Blease; Una Foye Purpose Eating disorders (EDs) remain a major health concern, and their incidence has further increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the equally increasing demands on treatments and service provision...

... not address the other eating disorders. Additionally, only female-identifying individuals volunteered their participation. As such, this study is notably lacking the voices of individuals of other genders. Practical implications Participant narratives suggest that improvements in the treatment of AN lie...

...Jackie Wales; Nicola Brewin; Iain Williamson; Jakub Štický; Rachael Lawrence; Alison Eivors Purpose Effective transitions from child and adolescent to adult services are important for continuity of care for patients with eating disorders. This study aims to examine the relative importance...

...Hannah Kate Lewis; Una Foye Purpose The current policy landscape advocates for the involvement of people with lived experience in the co-production and co-delivery of mental health services. However, evidence on how to do this safely and effectively for people with eating disorders (EDs...

...Jackie Wales; Nicola Brewin; Karima Susi; Alison Eivors; Debbie Whight; Rheanne Leatherland Purpose There is a dearth of research on what constitutes effective transfer of care from children’s and young people services to adult services for patients with eating disorders (EDs) in the UK...

...Zoë Meropi Hepburn; Emily Rose Rothwell; Julia Ann Fox-Clinch Purpose To evaluate the effectiveness of an adaptation of Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy (IPT-G), in facilitating short- and longer-term improvements in eating disorder symptomology, psychosocial impairment, anxiety, depression...

...Zoë Meropi Hepburn; Emily Rose Rothwell Purpose This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a specialist UK day treatment programme (DTP), in terms of whether improvements in eating disorder symptomology and psychosocial impairment achieved at discharge were maintained at 6-month and 12...

...Jackie Wales; Nicola Brewin; Raghu Raghavan; Jon Arcelus Purpose Referrals to specialist eating disorder (ED) services from the South Asian (SA) community are under-represented, despite research suggesting that disordered eating attitudes and behaviours of SA people are similar to the population...

...Stephen Linacre; Jessica Green; Vishal Sharma Purpose Carers of people with eating disorders (EDs) experience high levels of burden which can lead to clinical levels of depression and anxiety, high levels of expressed emotion and can lead to a non-conducive environment to support recovery...

...Rakel Eklund; Martin Salzmann-Erikson Purpose The purpose of this literature review is to describe how eating disorders among adolescents affect family relationships and the family’s daily living conditions and to describe the family’s experienced need for professional support. Design...

...Stephen Linacre; Suzanne Heywood-Everett; Vishal Sharma; Andrew J. Hill Purpose – Around 50 per cent of carers of people with eating disorders (EDs) experience mental health difficulties. The purpose of this paper is to investigate well-being of carers of people with ED and carers of people...

..., particularly obsessive compulsive disorder or a history of sexual abuse, and whose most predominant eating disorder problem was characterised by low weight. Eating disorders Day care Recovery Predictors PRACTICE Assessing the Impact on Patient Health of Attending a Day Treatment Programme for Eating...