Prevalence of orthorexia nervosa in university students and its relationship with psychopathological aspects of eating behaviour disorders.

María-Laura Parra-FernándezTeresa Rodríguez-CanoMaría-Dolores Onieva-ZafraMaría José Perez-HaroVíctor Casero-AlonsoElia Fernández-MartinezBlanca Notario-Pacheco

Published in: BMC psychiatry (2018)

These findings suggest that many of the psychological and behavioral aspects of ED are shared by people who are at risk of ON. Future research should use longitudinal data, examining the temporal relationship among these variables or other underlying variables that may contribute to the concurrence of ED and ON.

Keyphrases

emergency department
risk factors
electronic health record
physical activity
weight loss
current status
cross sectional
anorexia nervosa
sleep quality