Pain experience in eating disorders: The mediating role of depression, alexithymia and interoceptive awareness.

Gilda FaziaElvira Anna CarboneMarianna RaniaDaria QuirinoMatteo AloiRenato de FilippisPasquale De FazioLuana CollocaCristina Segura-Garcia

Published in: European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association (2023)

ED diagnosis is associated with non-neuropathic and lower pain experience. However, concurrent depression and alexithymia are associated with higher pain symptoms and neuropathic features. These results could inform clinicians about the influence of psychopathology on pain experience in ED.

Keyphrases

chronic pain
pain management
neuropathic pain
emergency department
depressive symptoms
sleep quality
squamous cell carcinoma
spinal cord
spinal cord injury
postoperative pain