The impact of COVID-19 on body-dissatisfied female university students.
Yuan ZhouTracey D WadePublished in: The International journal of eating disorders (2021)
Young women experienced increased levels of disordered eating after the onset of COVID. While no interactions with COVID were detected, changes to within-group effect sizes for disordered eating more than doubled for both online interventions and assessment from pre-COVID to during COVID, suggesting any attention to issues related to disordered eating in the context of reduced social contact may be beneficial.