Comparative Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Other Anxiety Disorders

Tyagi, Himanshu; Patel, Rupal; Rughooputh, Fabienne; Abrahams, Hannah; Watson, Andrew; Drummond, Lynne M.

doi:10.1155/2015/186927

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“…These patients may have a clinical ED or be at high risk of developing one, and may be in need of ED-specific treatment at some point. A previous study found that 18-34% (depending on cut-off score) of female patients with OCD screened positive for an ED [18], and another that 7% of female patients had a co-occurring ED [14]. Although these studies used ED measures other than the EDE-Q, their rates are comparable to the ones we report.…”

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“…Available studies have estimated that between 3 and 13% of patients has a lifetime history of an ED [13][14][15][16][17]. Lifetime ED rates are higher among female compared to male patients [14,16,18]. Less is known about how many patients with OCD have a current comorbid ED, but estimates range between 1 and 10% [13,14,18,19].…”

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“…Lifetime ED rates are higher among female compared to male patients [14,16,18]. Less is known about how many patients with OCD have a current comorbid ED, but estimates range between 1 and 10% [13,14,18,19]. Again, estimates are higher for females, and the few available studies report that between 7 and 18% of female and 0-5% of male patients have a current comorbid ED [14,18].…”

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“…Less is known about how many patients with OCD have a current comorbid ED, but estimates range between 1 and 10% [13,14,18,19]. Again, estimates are higher for females, and the few available studies report that between 7 and 18% of female and 0-5% of male patients have a current comorbid ED [14,18]. As studies are limited by lack of control groups, the extent to which ED prevalence is higher in this patient group compared to non-patient populations is unclear.…”

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“…Also, few studies have adopted a dimensional approach to ED symptoms in OCD, which can be a valuable approach to broadly characterize ED risk in these patients. One study administered a self-report screening measure for EDs to patients with OCD, and reported that 18-34% of patients with OCD scored above the screening cut-offs for an ED [18]. These initial findings indicate that a significant proportion of patients may be at high risk of developing EDs, but more studies are needed.…”

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Presence of eating disorder symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

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Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is common in patients with eating disorders (EDs). There is a lack of research investigating the presence of ED symptoms among patients with OCD, despite concerns that many of these patients may be at high risk for EDs. Our objective was to assess the presence of ED symptoms in patients receiving treatment for OCD.Methods: Adult patients with OCD (n = 132, 71% females) and controls (n = 260, 90% females) completed the Eating Disorder Examination-Questionnaire (EDE-Q) at admission to a specialized OCD outpatient unit. A small subset of patients (n = 22) also completed the EDE-Q 3-months after end of treatment.Results: At the group-level, mean EDE-Q scores did not differ significantly between female patients and controls. However, female patients compared to controls were significantly more likely to score above the EDE-Q cut-off (23% vs. 11%) and have a probable ED (9% vs. 1%), indicating elevated rates of ED symptoms in the clinical range. There was no evidence of elevated rates of ED symptoms in male patients, though sample sizes were small. Preliminary follow-up data showed that certain ED symptoms improved significantly from admission to 3-month follow-up.Conclusions: Our findings suggest that while ED symptoms are not generally elevated in female patients with OCD, a considerable subset of female patients may have a clinical ED or be at high risk of developing one. Clinicians should be alert to ED symptoms in female patients with OCD, and our findings raise the issue of whether ED screening of female patients with OCD is warranted.

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Anxiety, Obsessive‐Compulsive, and Depressive Symptom Presentation and Change Throughout Routine Eating Disorder Treatment

Velimirović,

Robison,

Abber

et al. 2024

Euro Eating Disorders Rev

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ObjectiveThe present study examined whether patients with binge/purge and restricting anorexia nervosa (AN‐BP and AN‐R), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED), avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), and other specified feeding and eating disorder (OSFED) differ in generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), obsessive‐compulsive disorder (OCD), and depression symptom patterns and overall comorbid symptom severity at admission. We also assessed between‐group differences in the patterns of change and overall comorbid symptom severity change from admission to discharge from routine eating disorder (ED) treatment at higher levels of care (HLOC).MethodThe initial sample included 3730 adults routinely assessed for GAD, depression, and OCD at admission and discharge from treatment.Results and ConclusionsED diagnostic groups exhibited somewhat different symptom patterns (e.g., AN‐R and ARFID were more prone to GAD and OCD than depression symptoms; BED exhibited the opposite pattern) and overall symptom severity at admission (i.e., AN‐BP and OSFED had the highest overall comorbid symptom severity; BED had the lowest). Although the overall symptom improvement was significantly greater in ARFID and BED than in AN‐BP, AN‐R, and OSFED, ED patients collectively and within each diagnostic group improved significantly in GAD, OCD, and depression symptoms following routine ED treatment at HLOC.

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Disordered Eating Behaviors in Other Psychiatric Disorders

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Speciani

Ronchi

2021

Hidden and Lesser-Known Disordered Eating Behaviors in Medical and Psychiatric Conditions

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Comparative Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Other Anxiety Disorders

Cited by 12 publications

References 53 publications

Presence of eating disorder symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Presence of eating disorder symptoms in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Anxiety, Obsessive‐Compulsive, and Depressive Symptom Presentation and Change Throughout Routine Eating Disorder Treatment

Disordered Eating Behaviors in Other Psychiatric Disorders

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