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Assessing the Prevalence of and Risk Factors for Disordered Eating Attitudes and Behaviors in Adolescents With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Year: 2021

Type: article

Abstract: Adolescents living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have a higher incidence of internalizing disorders, lower quality of life, and impaired social functioning relative to healthy peers.1 Medical and psychosocial risk factors for eating pathology and body image concerns also affect youth with IBD, including medical hyperfocus on weight, medically related food restriction, body image uncertainty, and societal praise of thinness despite health issues.2 Treatment-related risk factors may increase vulnerability to eating pathology and poor body image, including adverse effects of steroids and psychosocial sequelae related to surgery/medical devices (eg, body dissatisfaction after surgery). Adults with IBD have reported high rates of body image dissatisfaction (BID)3; however, few studies have examined prevalence rates among adolescents with IBD. In a review of BID and disordered eating behaviors in pediatric chronic illnesses, 53% and 16% of patients with cystic fibrosis were found to have disordered eating attitudes and disordered...

Source: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izab154